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A Special Day in the Life of a Pop-up Book Collector
Peter Schuehle Loxstedt. Germany translated by Verena Verspohl
VOLUME 4 NUMBER 4 DECEMBER
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Robert Sabuda, who had come from New York City, shared the process from conception to the birth of his latest pop-up, The 12 days of Christmas. It was from his head fascinating to move, with the help of slides. Colombia. in Cali, the to desk his to production plant Both Kees Moerbeek and Robert Sabuda patiently answered questions and signed copies of their books what an interesting morning. After a lunch break we got a good impression of the exhibition at the Haarlem Museum in the old market square through an excellent and detailed guided tour after which we had some time to take a closer look at the books that had caught our fancy. I certainly do hope that a closer, longer article on the exhibition will follow. My personal impression: it was excellent. The selection of books, the hundreds of year last but not they spanned, the variety and wealth, and in itself, book a least, an original catalogue, great pop-up a succeeded in giving us very comprehensive impression of what we collect. Full of wonderful impressions, most of us stayed not only to rest our tired feet in the nearby Cafe Carillon but also to contmue our discussion with and R.P. pop-up artists Sabuda, Moerbeek, Carla Dijs, Stikkelorum and to exchange information with our fellow collectors. A big thank you to Theo who had even found a sponsor for our drinks! All too early we had to leave to take the train backto Germany, but the train ride gave us some time to enjoy the catalogue (and to be glad that with -
From August 31 until November 3 there was an
books in outstanding exhibition of pop-up and movable the Stadsbibliotheek Haarlem," a short twenty minute train ride from Amsterdam (Netherlands). On this occasion Theo Gielen had arranged a get together of latter myself and pop-up artists and collectors, among the to do with the has that my sister, who collects anything
popular Christmas Christmas.' We were sorry to miss the first part the introductory round in the library, since our train was late, but welcomed with a cup of coffee we felt "right at home" § in the friendly
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GermanandEnglish we can understand enough Dutch to
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item from presented, as Theo had suggested, a special an thus his/her collection. impression of giving and resulting her collection of his/ him/herself as well as Then Henk friends. of in the feeling bemg among a the of head library, gave report about the Duijzer, the the library, whose 400th (! ) of collection the aims and for the exhibition. The reason the was anniversary entrance fee was very original: he had asked all collectors to bring a pop-up book for the library's collection. We were lucky to have two outstanding artists present to tell us something about the creative process of their books. Is there a collector who does NOT have several of Kees Moerbeck's books? We learned a lot about the several philosophy of his stories that can be read on levels and we will never again look quite as superficially at what we see!
the knowledge of
read the interesting
text). We're very grateful to Theo who has made a collector's dream come true: being togetherwith people share your the interest, meet to opportunity the artists and an
who
excellent exhibition all m one day! What more can one -
Theo Gielen proudly displays the exhibit's gorgeous catalog
ask for?