Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Design for front cover of book edited and translated by Royall Tyler. Images and text are of Japanese-inspired and Art Deco style. On black ground, illustration of a crayfish in stream, designed using various patterns of dots and lines in red, green, and blue. At top right, circle (sun/moon?) made up of various diamond and circle patterns in red and yellow. At top left, imitating Japanese design, title printed vertically in two rectangles with embellished corners. At top right, editor/
- translator's name. Along bottom edge, publisher "Pantheon Fairy Tale and Folklore Library" printed in rectangle with embellished corners. Published by Pantheon Books, New York. Verso: At top, label with designer's company "Louise Fili Ltd." and address.
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Designer
- Louise Fili, American, b. 1951
- Date
- ca. 1980
- Credit Line
- Gift of Louise Fili
- Medium
- Offset color lithograph on paper
- Dimensions
- 24 × 15.7 cm (9 7/16 × 6 3/16 in.)
- Type
- graphic design
- Object Name
- Book cover
- Type
- Book cover
