FORMAT: Ultra

SIZE:

Width: 180mm (7")

Height: 230mm (9")

Depth: 22mm (?")

INTERIOR: Lined

SPACE BETWEEN LINES: 8.11mm

LINES PER PAGE: 25

PAGE COUNT: 144 Pages

CLOSURE: Wrap

COLOUR: Multi-colour

GSM (PAPER WEIGHT): 120

COVER: Hardcover

EDGE PRINTING: No

BINDING TYPE: Smyth Sewn

POUCH TYPE: Memento Pouch

INTERIOR PAPER: Custom-Designed Laid Paper

RIBBON MARKERS: 1

MORE FEATURES:

100% recycled binder boards

Decorative printed cover paper

FSC-certified text paper

Threaded stitching and glue, as needed

Acid-free sustainable forest paper

Ignite your creativity with fiery Fiammetta. This sensuous Baroque-inspired cover comes from a 1725 binding of The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio, a masterpiece of Italian literature dealing in stories of love and lust.

French artist Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841–1919) was one of the leading painters of the Impressionist movement, acclaimed for his portraiture, dreamy landscapes and use of vibrant light and saturated colour.

Renoir was born into a family of modest means, and much of his early life was shaped by poverty. When he was a young child his father moved the family from Limoges to Paris in search of more favourable prospects. Renoir showed an early talent for drawing and singing, but the family’s financial difficulties forced him to discontinue his lessons and leave school at the age of 13 to work as an apprentice painter in a porcelain factory. He began taking free drawing classes and in 1862 he enrolled at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, later joining the studio of Charles Gleyre (1806–1874). Although he sometimes did not have enough money to buy paint, he was fortunate to live close to the Louvre, which he visited often to study the works of the Old Masters.