left: Jan Toorop (1898); right: no designer credited (1904).
A search this week for work by Dutch designer Chris Lebeau (1878–1945) turned up another collection of fantastic decorated covers and prints from the Netherlands, running from the Art Nouveau period through Art Deco up to the 1940s. I found some Lebeau pieces but the big surprise was also discovering a number of cover designs by the Symbolist artist Jan Toorop (1858–1928). Toorop’s highly-stylised draughtsmanship easily lends itself to graphic design but I’ve never seen cover illustration mentioned in any discussion of his work. The site doesn’t have any text in English but the pictures are well worth a browse.
Update: Well…the pictures were worth a browse but the site is currently offline, all the links now go to a domain holding-page.
left: Albert Angus Turbayne (1913); right: CA Vlaanderen (1919).
The peacock cover is a variation on an earlier design by Albert Angus Turbayne.
left: Chris Lebeau (1924); right: AP Hahn Jr. (1931).
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