Lettres Décoratives: A Century of French Sign Painters’ Alphabets Out of Office_Library Handcrafted by a Texan woodworker

Handcrafted by a Texan woodworker with a subtly carved rough-hewn surface texture that reflects light beautifully and prevents items from rolling off

Born from necessity in a Nairobi classroom

Generously sized

they merge environmental and social responsibility with their core mission: bridging Denmark's design heritage with contemporary innovation

from the era when keeping track of things was still done by hand

Lettres Décoratives: A Century of French Sign Painters’ Alphabets Out of Office_Library Handcrafted by a Texan woodworkerAcross France, before standardized type arrived to settle the question, the sign painter was the city's typographer the person responsible for how storefronts, restaurants, and music halls looked. These artisans worked from large chromolithographic portfolios: model alphabets printed to demonstrate styles, teach technique, and supply an entire trade with its visual vocabulary. Lettres Dcoratives recovers that tradition in full more than 150 plates of