- Dent-de-Leone
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Dent-de-Leone is a small independent publisher located in London, distinctive for the fact that it collaborates directly with artists and designers to produce its books. It was founded by Martino Gamper, Kajsa Ståhl and Maki Suzuki (both from design collective Åbäke) in 2004 with the publication of the book What Martino Gamper did between two-thousand and two-thousand&four. It produces an irregular number of books per year, as well as limited editions and multiples. Dent-De-Leone has participated in numerous art book fairs including the Whitechapel Art Book Fair, Publish and be Damned and the Motto art book fair. All of its publications are designed by Åbäke.
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Origin of the name
The name Dent-De-Leone is derived from the dandelion, a common plant often cooked during the Social Pasta events created by Martino Gamper and Åbäke. Some of these projects are detailed in the book Social Pasta[1]. The English name dandelion is a corruption of the French dent de lion meaning "lion's tooth", referring to the coarsely toothed leaves. In modern French the plant is named pissenlit, and was called "piss-a-bed" previous to its current naming in English. These names refer to the strong diuretic effect of the roots of the herb.
Awards and Publications
Dent-de-Leone recently won a Grafik Magazine[2] award for the publication Every Colour by Itself by Francis Upritchard.
Other publications include 100 Chairs in 100 Days and its 100 ways[3] by Martino Gamper, which has recently been republished as a pocket book. Aurélien Froment conducted an extended interview with the legendary German film director Werner Herzog which is detailed in the book Like the Cow Jumped Over the Moon[4]. Another collaboration with Froment is a version of Thomas Moore's 1516 novel Utopia, set in the typeface developed by Moore [5]for the island and thus virtually impossible to read[6]. Francis Upritchard's book In die Höhle was produced for her exhibition at the Vienna Secession in Austria.[7]
Publications
- 100 Chairs in 100 Days and its 100 Ways by Martino Gamper
- Like the Cow Jumped Over the Moon by Aurélien Froment
- In die Höhle by Francis Upritchard
- The Victoria & Alferd Museum Broadsheet #8 by Åbäke
- (In)Visible Dialogues by Elias Arnér and Per Huttner
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