{"id":11763,"date":"2019-01-20T01:00:10","date_gmt":"2019-01-20T06:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/?p=11763"},"modified":"2025-09-15T15:38:36","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T19:38:36","slug":"bookbinder-of-the-month-eduardo-gimenez-burgos-post-four","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/20\/bookbinder-of-the-month-eduardo-gimenez-burgos-post-four\/","title":{"rendered":"Bookbinder of the Month: Eduardo Gim\u00e9nez Burgos \/\/ Post Four"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/LaNuit-EduardoGimenez.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"11764\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/20\/bookbinder-of-the-month-eduardo-gimenez-burgos-post-four\/lanuit-eduardogimenez\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/LaNuit-EduardoGimenez.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"800,507\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"LaNuit-EduardoGimenez\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/LaNuit-EduardoGimenez.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-11764\" src=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/LaNuit-EduardoGimenez.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"412\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/LaNuit-EduardoGimenez.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/LaNuit-EduardoGimenez-300x190.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/LaNuit-EduardoGimenez-768x487.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/escuelalibro.es\/eduardo-gimenez\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Eduardo Gim\u00e9nez<\/a> entered his binding of <em>L&#8217;oeuvre de Pierre Lecuire: La Nuit\u00a0<\/em>into the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.societyofbookbinders.com\/events\/competition\/2015\/2015.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Society of Bookbinders 2015 International Competition<\/a>. It is bound in the Dorfner-style in black calfskin with pale blue suede onlays and orange paper inlays. Black and orange Nepalese paper are used for the doublures and flyleaves. Eduardo&#8217;s binding won the Harmatan Leather Award for Forwarding in the Case Binding Category.<\/p>\n<p><strong>You studied in Belguim with Edgard Claes and in this binding you employ the Dorfner structure. The description in the Society of Bookbinders catalog refers to this as a Dorfner-style case binding. I\u2019ve had the opportunity to learn this structure as well and would love to know how you modified the structure into a case rather than attaching the boards to the sewing supports?<br \/>\n<\/strong>Indeed, in this binding I used the Dorfner\u00a0style,\u00a0a\u00a0leather version of the model developed by Edgard Claes for his polycarbonate\u00a0bindings.\u00a0In\u00a0this\u00a0binding,\u00a0as\u00a0it is usual, the black-stained parchment ribbons are glued to the recto of the covers, although they are barely visible as they are hidden by the suede onlays at the level of the spine. I think the confusion is in the definition of the term &#8216;case\u00a0binding&#8217;. For\u00a0us, case\u00a0binding has a broader\u00a0meaning and\u00a0defines the\u00a0bindings\u00a0whose\u00a0covers are just covered independently\u00a0to\u00a0join\u00a0the\u00a0body\u00a0of\u00a0the\u00a0book afterwards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eduardo Gim\u00e9nez entered his binding of L&#8217;oeuvre de Pierre Lecuire: La Nuit\u00a0into the Society of Bookbinders 2015 International Competition. It is bound in the Dorfner-style in black calfskin with pale blue suede onlays and orange paper inlays. Black and orange Nepalese paper are used for the doublures and flyleaves. Eduardo&#8217;s binding won the Harmatan Leather [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[12,13,240],"tags":[1867,1009,2295,1877,2307,1199],"class_list":["post-11763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-binder-of-the-month","category-feature-book-of-the-week","category-interview","tag-bookbinding","tag-edgard-claes","tag-eduardo-gimenez","tag-interview","tag-loeuvre-de-pierre-lecuire-la-nuit","tag-society-of-bookbinders"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Btis-33J","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11737,"url":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/01\/bookbinder-of-the-month-eduardo-gimenez-burgos\/","url_meta":{"origin":11763,"position":0},"title":"Bookbinder of the Month: Eduardo Gim\u00e9nez Burgos \/\/ Interview","author":"Erin Fletcher","date":"January 1, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Eduardo Gim\u00e9nez participated in the 2009 Designer Bookbinders International Competition, where binders were asked to bind a copy of A Selection of Poems on the Theme of Water. 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