– ABOUT THIS DESIGN –

Recalling the detailed leather book bindings of the 1930s, ‘Doucet’ is an eye-catching interplay of pattern and form, suggestive of a deconstructed landscape. Named for the great French collector Jacques Doucet - one of the most important patrons of 20th-century art, who assembled two renowned libraries devoted to art, archaeology, and literature - the design is composed with the sensibility of modernist works, enlivened by dynamic variations in shape, with concentric contours elegantly punctuated by linear strokes. Rendered in bas-relief, then antiqued and polished, lustrous curves are balanced by ruled gestures, converging across a hand-painted ground in deep tones of mahogany and plum.