Laurel Parker Crazy about bookbinding Traditional technical skills perfectly mastered, coupled with an unbridled creativity, that’s what makes the work of Laurel Parker so remarkable. Behind her, an atypical journey : after studing bookbinding while in art school in Boston, Laurel devoted her time to the photographic work of New York artists while participating in the management of Moby c Studio, all while working in her studio on bookbinding and design projects. Her installation in France is owed in part to Eloise Baille, a French bookbinder whom she met while working on an artistic collaboration. Together, they opened a studio in the Viaduc des Arts in Paris three years ago. Last spring, Laurel decided to go solo. In her studio in Montreuil, the young American creates to order journals and boxes for luxury boutiques, photographic books, photo albums, catalogs, portfolio books…Her works are fine tuned starting with japanese papers, guilded lambskin or suede, old fabrics found in antique stores among others. A work very successful concerning image, paper, typography, and space. Marie-Maude Levron, Elle Décoration, December, 2006. Photos by Gilles Trillard.  Creating books and boxes, par Benjamin Rinehart, Quarry Books, 2007 Atelier d'art, September-October 2005. "Fabric Slipcase" (étui en tissu), Crafter's Project Book (Livre des projets d'artisans), Mary Ann Hall et Sandra Salamony, Quarry Press, Rockport Publishers, États-Unis, 2000. Marie Claire Maison, décembre 2004. "Slipcase Caché" (étui caché), Pretty and Posh, Dawn Anderson, Martingale and Company, 2003, État-Unis. Photographie : Carl Tremblay. Résidences décoration, 2003.