Thomas Raat. Archetypes and Residues

Book coverThomas Raat. Archetypes and Residues
Book coverThomas Raat. Archetypes and Residues
Book coverThomas Raat. Archetypes and Residues
Book coverThomas Raat. Archetypes and Residues

This book about the work of artist Thomas Raat shows how he transforms everyday objects like chairs, mirrors, doors and furniture frames into works of art. The alternation of glossy and uncoated paper is striking, and there is even brown kraft – a nod in the direction of Willem Sandberg. Here, show-through on the semitransparent EOS paper is permitted. It’s almost too neat: there’s not a disruptive element to be seen anywhere, though there could easily have been with a subject like this. The simplicity is wicked and the photography has been particularly beautifully done.

Edition: 2016
Author: Maria Barnas
Language: English, translated by John Bezold
Final editor: Edwin van Gelder
Publisher: Onomatopee, Eindhoven
Graphic designer: Mainstudio, Amsterdam (Edwin van Gelder), photographs by Benjamin van Witsen
Lithographer: Lenoirschuring, Amsterdam
Printer: Lenoirschuring, Amsterdam
Binder: Patist, Den Dolder
Size book block (w x h x d in mm): 240 x 340 x 9
Number of pages: 112 p.
Print run: 500
Price: € 25
ISBN: 978 94 91677 52 6
Font and foundry: Founders Grotesk Medium (Klim Foundry)
Binding style: sewn with front and back cover, and white crepe paper glued on the spine; dust jacket
Material: 150gsm Cocoon Gloss, 90gsm Cairn Natural Kraft, 120gsm EOS 2.0 (interior), 400gsm Munken Pure (cover), 110gsm Starkraft (dust jacket)