Books: Works Archive

‘Ole Kissa Jos Osaat’ by Frans Toikkanen & Jaana Janhila

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Full-leather binding with feathered onlays and silver leaf inlays.

This is a book of artful prints and poetry with a cat theme. The fantastic black cats are by artist Frans Toikkanen and the related poems by Jaana Janhila. The Finnish title means ‘Be a Cat If You Can’. Keeping with the blackness of the prints, the book is bound in full black, with silvery inlays depicting cat’s sratches. There are also black feather onlays that almost blend into the black cover, and black ink tooling.