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Boutiques by Lucien Boucher
Boutiques by Lucien Boucher, red cloth binding with a pasted pictorial label
Le Bouquiniste, Lucien Boucher's bookstall on the banks of the Seine
La Boulangerie, Lucien Boucher's Parisian bakery window
Couleurs & Vernis, a paint shop front in bold geometric colour by Lucien Boucher
Phonographes, a gramophone shop window with coloured horns by Lucien Boucher
Le Café-Bar, Lucien Boucher's red café front with coffee urns
Bandagiste, Lucien Boucher's surgical supplier's window with exhibition medals
Lucien Boucher

Boutiques by Lucien Boucher

Sale price£100.00

Published in Paris in 1925 in an edition of just 500, Boutiques paired Lucien Boucher’s vivid illustrations of shopfronts and their proprietors with surreal text by Pierre Mac Orlan. It sold out at once, is now counted among the classics of art deco book design, and left its mark on Eric Ravilious, whose High Street (1938) owes much to Boucher.

The first of the Mainstone Press’s Parisian trilogy reproduces all 37 shops with new captions by Andrew Stewart, and Mac Orlan’s text in a new English translation by Shaun Whiteside. James Russell’s illustrated essay explores the world of Boucher, Mac Orlan and their publisher Marcel Seheur, followed by a pictorial survey of Boucher’s Paris and notes on the printing by Neil Philip.

Published by The Mainstone Press.

• 280 pages
• Page size 225 x 185 mm 
• Book size 230 x 190 mm

Limited to 500 copies.