Giulio Giannini e Figlio have been binding books and marbling paper in Florence since 1856, still run today by the same family six generations on. This is the paper they're known for, made into something you can carry. The soft cover is a sheet of marbled paper, each one drawn by hand off a bath thickened with seaweed - colour combed and feathered into the pattern, then lifted away in a single pass. No sheet can be made twice, so no two notebooks are the same: the green runs to copper in one, the blue scatters into hundreds of small bubbles in another. Inside, the end-papers are a different hand process - block-printed in the bottega - and the pages are plain, for writing or drawing as you please. A pencil sits at the spine. The whole thing closes with a wrapped string. Several marbled colourways, each one its own sheet. Exclusive to Australia.
