As the festive season approaches, Gallimard's original stationery collection is expanding once again. The famous French publishing house offers new references of writing and drawing pads as well as two original products.
This delightful collection launched in 2017 plays with the graphic codes and titles of the publisher's Blanche collection ledgers. "In order to distinguish them from books, the author's name is not mentioned on the front cover. On the other hand, each interior opens with a quotation from the work it reflects, signed with the author's name, and closes with a reminder of the history of La Blanche" gallimard explains.
This year, the publisher is offering a 19 x 10.5 cm Italian-style pad made of 115 g/m² paper and a 25 x 32.5 cm large-format drawing book with 144 blank pages.
He has also made several new notebooks in various formats. For example, Gallimard presents three unpublished notebooks with a 14x18 cm colour cover with 208 lined pages, including the silver notebook Paris est une fête, a reference to Ernest Hemingway's autobiographical work published in 1964.
The 2021 agenda is prefaced by the writer Michel Le Bris. The hard cover is covered in textured paper with a glued square spine binding and an interior printed in two colours.
Gallimard also proposes The Proust Questionnaire. This notebook of 96 lined pages measuring 9.5 x 16.5 cm contains Marcel Proust's answers to the questionnaire he made famous. Every two pages is presented a question accompanied by two answers from the writer at two periods of his life. And blank lines allow one to write down one's own answers. A third set of questions and answers dating from 1887 when the writer was 15 years old completes the notebook.
This collection also includes a cotton case "entitled" Pleasures and Days which contains a 192 page lined notebook.
