Laurel Parker Book is a hybrid space devoted to artists’ books, at the crossroads of design studio, fabrication workshop, and art gallery.
Since 2008, Laurel Parker Book has been designing books, boxes, and artists’ multiples for artists and publishers, as well as for agencies, luxury houses, institutions, and the private sector. Our craft binding workshop is dedicated to artistic creation, beautiful presentation, and the conservation of artistic and heritage works.
Since 2018, Laurel Parker Edition has been publishing contemporary art in multiples, always keeping in mind the book-object and the handmade object.
In 2020, the studio joined their colleagues at Komunuma, adding to their workshop space a gallery–bookshop–library : Artist Book Space.
Following their residency at the Villa Kujoyama in Kyoto, Laurel Parker Book has developed Folded By Hand : artworks and surfaces in washi (Japanese artisanal paper) using traditional treatments. These objects - a mixture of Japanese techniques and French savoir-faire - are intended for decoration and interior design.
For an appointment, send us an email or give us a call :
Tél : +33 (0) 9 83 93 48 20
Email : laurelparkerbook@gmail.com
Laurel Parker Book
43, rue de la Commune de Paris
93230 Romainville, France
Metro : Line 5, Bobigny Pantin Raymond Queneau
Bus : 145, 147, 318
Car : N3 by Paris, follow avenue Gaston Roussel
Vélib’ : Station Gaston Roussel
Laurel Parker, founder and artistic director of the studio, studied painting and filmmaking the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Diploma), and art history at Tufts University (BFA). She studied bookbinding and printing at the Center for Book Arts in New York. She was laureate of the Villa Kujoyama (Kyoto) in 2019 in duo with Paul Chamard. She was named Artisan of exception by the Fondation Remy Cointreau in 2019. Laurel gives workshops and conferences in different art and design schools in France.
Paul Chamard, head of the studio’s production, studied etching at École Estienne, where he earned his arts and crafts diploma, and at the HEAR in Strasbourg, where he earned his Master’s degree in the book object. He is responsible for the daily production of projects as well as the technicians who join us for large projects. Paul was laureate of the Villa Kujoyama in 2019 in duo with Laurel Parker.
Coline Boudier Ligault, production assistant, studied Art History at Strasbourg et earned her CAP de reliure (bookbinding certificate). She continued at ENSAV de la Cambre en Bruxelles earning a Bachelor of Book and Paper Design. In 2023, elle participated in the program Savoir-faire in transmission (BDMMA Paris) at the atelier Invenio Flory.
Lauréats, Villa Kujoyama, Laurel Parker et Paul Chamard (2019)
Artisan d’Exception, Fondation Rémy Cointreau (2019)
Grands Ateliers de France, member
French Design by VIA, adherent
Maison des Artistes, adherent
Grands Prix de la Création, finalist (2024, 2018, 2016)
Fabriqué à Paris, label (2019, 2018)
Grant, Paris Création : Ateliers de Paris Endowment Fund, Daniel and Nina Carasso Foundation (2014)
Studio grant, Semaest, Viaduc des Arts, Paris (2004)
Multiple Art Days
FLAT, Turin
Salon de Livres Rares & Objets d’Art, Grand Palais
Multiple Art Days
Salon de Livres Rares & Objets d’Art, Grand Palais
“The client, the graphic designer and the printer” / FAC Rennes 2 / an invitation of Jocelyn Cottencin & Yann Sérandour
“The secret life of photo books” / la Maison Doisneau de la photographie, Gentilly
Université Rennes 2 / workshop edition 3rd year Licence professionnelle Design graphique, éditorial et multimédia (class of Yann Sérandour and Jocelyn Cottencin ), 2020–2025
ESADHaR · Le Havre / workshop edition 3rd year DNA (invited by Sonia Da Rocha), 2024
ESAD Valence / workshop “books with a system” in 3rd year graphic design (in the class of Lisa Bayle & Samuel Vermeil), 2022
EESAB Bretagne, Rennes / workshop edition 2nd year graphic design (class of Jérôme Saint-Loubert Bié, etc), 2011–2022
EMI École des métiers d’information / workshop edition photo book (invitation of Jean Larive), 2020–2023
Parsons Paris / presentation of book edition / AMT Art Media and Technology / (1st year class of Tamara Rosenblum), 2021
ESAM Caen / workshop edition 2nd year graphic design (class of Juanma Gomez) 2018–2021
Lycée Eugénie Coton / workshop edition en 2nd year communication (class of Yoan De Roeck), 2019
ESAM Caen / workshop edition in Master’s program book edition (class of Juanma Gomez), 2018
ENSA Nancy / workshop edition photo book with Marina Gadonneix and Remi Faucheaux / 2018
AA School of Architecture, visiting school Paris / workshop edition, 2017 & 2018
INP Institut national du patrimoine / workshop conditioning archival materials, 2017 & 2018
Pôle supérieur de design Nouvelle Aquitaine / Plastic practice and Mediation UE5, DSAA 2nd year design, 2016–2017
Pôle supérieur de design Nouvelle Aquitaine / workshop edition in 1st year DSAA (with Élisabeth Charvet & Mahaut Clément), 2017
F93 / workshop edition, dispositif ULIS at middle school Pasteur, Villemomble, Laurel Parker & Paul Chamard
Center for Book Arts, New York / instructor, bookbinding and paper arts, 2001–2011
École spéciale d’architecture, Paris / workshop edition, 2009
SVA School of Visual Arts, New York / workshop edition, 2001
Horizons New England Craft Program, Williamsburg, Massachusetts / workshop rbookbinding and paper arts, 1996–2001
Massachusetts College of Art, Boston / workshop edition, 1998
“L’importance de l’écrin…Dans sont atelier parisien, Laurel Parker conçoit des écrins d’exception”, by David Kabla, Intramuros №198.
“Laurel Parker Book”, Grabado y edicion №61.
“Atelier Laurel Parker Book : le livre, un objet d’art”, Connaissance des arts, hors-série métiers d’art en France 2018.
Design & code : Timothée Goguely
Typeface : Mint Grotesk, designed by Love Letters.
