Masureel Cahier #1
The 1920's. Wallpaper versus Belgian Modernism
Guy Verstraete, head of the company Masureel, has been an art enthusiast and a collector for many years. Besides historic wallpapers and textile, the Masureel Collection contains modern and contemporary art, with a major focus on works on paper dating from the 1920s to the present day.
This small publication connects 1920s art and wallpaper design. We invited Norbert Poulain (vzwinterbellum) and Eline Stoop (Ghent University, VLB) to provide essays on this topic, drawing on their expertise in the (applied) arts during the interwar period in Belgium.
We visually divided the book into two parts. One part includes the 2 essays by Poulain and Stoop. The focus here is on readability. In the other part we focused on the presentation of the artworks of the collection. Choices regarding typography, paper type and layout were made in order to deliver the best result.
