This Rimy River - Graphic works 1988-1994 - Limited Edition Book

Limited numbered edition deluxe book/catalogue for the 4AD house designer Vaughan Oliver/v23 exhibition studio held at the Design Center in Los Angeles in 1994.

Extremely high caliber pruduct - 72 pages, clear screen printed and engraved perspex covers on both sides attached to dyed orange calfskin spine-skirt - bound by the studio - sizes: 16.2'' x 12.2'' (410 x 310 mm), housed inside special luxurious screen printed, ultramarine blue-black crushed velvet covered slipcase, 200 color illustrations, English - manufactured limited to 400 copies - this is number 092 - and almost imediately out of print and rare.

'Vaughan Oliver is one of the most powerful and explosive graphic designers of his time. This Rimy River is a catalog of an exhibition held at the Pacific Design Center in Los Angeles in 1994. Long out of print, it has been sought after by designers and collectors who have followed the work of v23.
Most admired for his collaborative energy and imagination, Oliver set the stage for a graphic revolution in the eighties and nineties. His impact was left on the post-punk music industry and influenced a generation of designers exploring the possibilities of type and print.

Limited to 400 copies, this special edition of the Los Angeles exhibition catalogue uses the regular edition as its starting point but bears it little resemblance. Coming eight years after the Lonely Is An Eyesore deluxe box design it marks another watershed in v23's studio output.
The original page designs have been overprinted with two new layers of artwork. The first overprint, in black, utilizes enlarged details of archival artwork which virtually obliterate the existing illustrations and text. This, in turn, is overlaid with one large word per page, running bottom to top in a translucent bronze ink.
The words are an extract from Victoria Mitchell's poem Dearest Vaya con Dios Darling, which inspired the exhibition's title This Rimy River. The resulting palimpsest, more painting than book, is finished with end papers that incorporate snapshots of the L.A. show bound in a patterned plexiglass hardcover, and housed in a luxurious velvet slipcase.'

Condition: M- (Book)/M- (Slipcase):

Book itself is perfect - pages without any signs of handling what so ever, leather skirt undamaged and plexi glass undamaged - outhervelvet covered slipcase is equally perfect - a sublime copy.