Catalog for/by Wright

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CLIENT

Wright is a Chica­go, IL-based auc­tion house spe­cial­iz­ing in mod­ern and con­tem­po­rary art and design. Auc­tions are metic­u­lous­ly curat­ed across the spec­trum of twen­ti­eth and twen­ty-first cen­tu­ry design. 

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BRIEF

Ital­ian Mas­ter­works is an auc­tion cat­a­log cre­at­ed to mar­ket and cel­e­brate a col­lec­tion of rare objects and fur­ni­ture from the Ital­ian col­lec­tor Loris Manna. 

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APPROACH

To dis­tin­guish this col­lec­tion, the cat­a­log is print­ed on uncoat­ed paper using high-def­i­n­i­tion UV inks—with the his­toric essays and a gold PMS for the Ital­ian trans­la­tion on an uncoat­ed green stock in the first sig­na­ture of the per­fect bound book. Thought­ful pho­tog­ra­phy plan­ning of the col­lec­tion and the inclu­sion of his­tor­i­cal images, text, and cus­tomized cap­tions com­plete the styling of the lay­outs. Cre­at­ing a min­i­mal pat­tern based on Pon­ti’s fur­ni­ture for the cov­er art­work con­tex­tu­al­ized the book with­in the mid-cen­tu­ry Ital­ian design movement.