L’IMPÉRATRICE
DE LA NUIT
PER SPOOK
luxury box
L’Impératrice de la nuit recounts the close ties between Per Spook, a Norwegian fashion designer who ran her own fashion house in Paris, and Hélène Martini nicknamed «the Empress of the Night» who reigned over Parisian theatres and cabarets and directed for more than three decades the Folies Bergère where she began.
Luxury Box
Limited edition of 20 prestige boxes numbered from 1 to 20, repackaged with a fabric printed with an original pattern designed by Per Spook and hot stamped.
Each box contains:
the numbered book,
a signed print, 26 26 cm, slipped into an envelope in the same pattern as the box
three original lithographs signed by Per Spook, 14 20 cm, printed by l'Atelier Clot on Rives blanc 250 g/m2 paper, limited to 20 copies each
Price: 650€
ISBN: 978-2-909478-59-3
If you wish to choose a box number, please send an email to Achevé d’imprimer, indicating the desired number and your order number.
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Format 26x26 cm
168 pages on paper Symbol Tatami White 150 g
Hardcover
Wicotex Brillant canvas cover with hot and cold stamping
Tray for film-coated image 15 x 15 cm
Booklets sewn, straight back
Blank guard on Sunken 150g paper
the prints
l’impératrice de la nuit
– the book
L’Impératrice de la nuit reveals intimacies: first that of a friendship linking the couturier Per Spook and Madame Hélène Martini, the Empress of the Night; that of the closet of a woman for whom elegance was a rule and finally that of the intimate notebook of a widow at the head of an empire.
The haute couture outfits presented in this book were all imagined, designed and created by Per Spook for Madame Martini between 1966 and 1994. The photographs were taken by the Norwegian couturier between 2019 and 2021 with a medium format film camera.
The texts, written by Danielle Bott, journalist and former editor-in-chief for Vogue, are inspired by Hélène Martini’s personal notebooks, kept by Per Spook.
Biography:
Per Spook is a Norwegian couturier, who ran his own fashion house in Paris between 1977 and 1995. After studying at the Oslo School of Fine Arts, he arrived in Paris at the age of 20, where he worked as a freelance designer with Christian Dior or Saint Laurent, before being hired by Luis Féraud. Per Spook has won numerous awards including the Aiguille d'Or in 1978 and the Dé d'Or twice in 1980 and 1994. He was also decorated First Class Knight of the Royal Norwegian Order of Saint Olav in 2003.
