About the cover:
Full-grain binding ‘I would like to meet Thomas Mann's mature and rambling literary language with clarity. I find a suitable creative means for this in regular strips. Arranged in different ways on the book cover, they refer to the spaces that are immanent not only to the body of the book, but also to the dimensions of the text. The examination of spatiality is complemented by the stencil wiping paper technique that I used for the coloured paper. The cover is made of green maroquin leather. There are five vertical white stripes of equal width on the spine, made as a leather overlay. The small lilac metallic coloured title of the book is embossed on the central leather strip. The white stripes continue across the three-sided green coloured edge. The endpapers are divided into rectangular tiles. The chemise, slipcase and suite are covered with light green coloured paper. The suite contains six further variations of the tile pattern.’