Mercè Capell

Mercè Capell

Poems

Teresa always liked writing. She writes from a very young age. Now, as she has more time, she has compiled her writings and wanted to give them to her family. She wanted a simple but special binding. We chose handmade…

Letters to the Moon

Here my client “gave the moon away” to her partner for Sant Jordi. He wanted to give her a binding of the compilation of emails that both wrote to each other since they met, and as he wanted the title…

The beauty of simplicity

The client had a small text to give away to her partner and needed a nice binding. We opted for a Japanese binding, most appropriate when you have few sheets, and finished with a small case to set with the…

Music sheets case

The client had some music sheets of her father dated between 1898 and 1912 which had to be given adequate protection. To facilitate their later reading and interpretation, it was thought that the best thing was a case where to…

Old dictionary

This dictionary was heavily used by the client’s father. But the spine was pretty run down. As she did not want a restoration, but a repair so that it would not deteriorate any more, I made a substitution of the…

Stories with happy ending

This was a very special order. The client wanted to give her partner a blank book in which she could write, but with some dedicated handwritten poems (provided by the client) on its first and last pages. In addition, it…

Gift to the partner

The client wanted to bind a writing he had made for his partner, to celebrate a very special occasion. He wanted to do it on handmade paper, so he bought the sheets of this paper and took it to the…

Book-stairs

This is an order that was made by a designer. He sent me the drawing by email and with the measures I made the book, glued it all and took it to the carpenter to have it sawed. Then I…