Striped Camellias by Kazumasa Exhibition Travel and the scale of the

and the scale of the original engraving — designed to be monumental — gives the image a presence that few illustrated books have matched before or since

channelling early twentieth-century French design innovation into compositions originally intended for textiles and wallpapers

lending the composition an intimacy that pure illustration rarely achieves

Printed in our Berlin studio with archival pigment inks on museum-grade fine art paper

and quiet urban detail across every corner

Striped Camellias by Kazumasa Exhibition Travel and the scale of theCamellia japonica, with its precise, formal petals, was a favourite subject in both Japanese painting and early botanical photography and Kazumasa's striped variety is a particularly striking example. The flowers are caught in their prime: petals patterned in clean stripes of crimson and white, the geometry almost architectural in its regularity. His collotype process reproduces the pigmentation with a fidelity that no hand coloured engraving could