Faucheux Book Club

Please allow 10 working days to process before shipping  10 oz. Black Crewneck - Made in USA50% cotton 50% polyester Pierre Faucheux (1924-1999) lived and became a graphiste (long before the international usage of the english term designer) in the threshold between two worlds. World War II took the ground from beneath the traditional French graphic scene, and forced it to open itself to the American influence and to its new ways of creating and marketing something as old as books. At that moment of post-war tabula rasa, with a mix of normative rigor of the traditional typography and an intuitive drive, Faucheux, who had trained to be  a typographer, was the right man at the right time in delivering the solutions to the demand of this new type of book. When book clubs were launched at the end of the 1940s (first the Club Français du Livre, then the Club des Libraires de France), his were the maquettes (layouts) for the more than 500 books that would eventually be published in the fol