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Bookbinding and Design

Department of Bookbinding and Design

The modern bookbinder can find lots of challenges and possibilities in the profession providing that one is equipped with the necessary skills and maintains the "life-long quest" for learning. The section bookbinding and design offers a challenging forum for both technique and design. In a relaxed environment students can focus on specific techniques to improve their technical skills. With an international curriculum, they can broaden their knowledge, compare techniques, exchange experience and motivate each other. Away from the stress of jobs and daily routine, students can try new techniques not possible while under pressure of time or profit.

In addition to classical techniques, like the French or the a la Bradel binding or the handgilding with all its applications, our professional school offers many innovative, experimental trends and futuristic novelties, imparted by the head of the department himself or by guest teachers.

Suzanne Schmollgruber

Suzanne Schmollgruber is the new director of the department Design Bookbinding at CBL.

Suzanne Schmollgruber will take over as the new director of the department Design Bookbinding at CBL on May 1, 2010 as Edwin Heim who has been with CBL since 1984 goes into retirement.

Suzanne Schmollgruber trained as a hand bookbinder in Lausanne and Sion from 1988 until 1992. In 1992/1993 she attended a year long advanced training courses at the CBL under the direction of Edwin Heim. Between 1994 and 2007 she continued her advanced training in different countries with other well known professionals such as: Hedi Kyle, Peter Aegerter, Jean-Luc Honegger, Sün Evrard, Carmencho Arregui and Pamela Moore.
In 1993 until 1996 she worked as a hand bookbinder with Rolf Bommer in Basel and at the Basel Paper Mill, Museum for paper, writing and printing.
From 1996 until 2005 she worked in Barcelona as a free-lance bookbinder running her own workshop. During that time she also taught courses in her studio and at schools throughout Spain.
In 2005 she moved to Milan, Italy where she continued working free-lance and further developing her teaching activities in fine bookbinding.

Suzanne has become an internationally renowned capacity in the sector of traditional hand and design bookbinding. The president and board of directors are very pleased that she has agreed to become the new director of the department of design bookbinding.

We are looking forward to the collaboration with her and wish her a good start and good luck for the future.

At this time we would also like to express our deepest gratitude to Edwin Heim for his enormous dedication to teaching and furthering the craft of hand bookbinding. His work at the CBL has helped to establish our international reputation for offering the highest level of quality available for the advanced studies and training in bookbinding that the CBL now enjoys. Thank you Edwin!