Sternthal Books

We are now taking pre-orders for Efrat Klipstein’s ‘Downscaling of the Heart.’ Order a copy here! The book is softcover with a double flap, cover is printed with silkscreen and transparent foil.

“While the distance between the foot of the mountain and its summit gets smaller and smaller as the climber walks up the narrow path, Efrat Klipshtein marks continuous, rolling distances along a road that cannot be reduced and does not reach its destination. Having started her professional career as a geographer and continued as an artist, Klipshtein embarks on artistic journeys, mapping flora and fauna, ocean liners, star orbits, and mountainous expanses, high cliffs towering above the clouds, and roads that stretch to infinity. She indicates a place that is not quite a territory and creates a landscape that is not exactly a place. Klipshtein measures and experiences the space with her body.” Tali Tamir

Design & Production by .amshalem at Field Day Studio .studio , digital rendering by

Yesterday we finished the first day of printing Efrat Klipstein’s new book ‘Downscaling the Heart’, masterfully designed by Idan Am-Salem and Field Day Studio. While the book has been years in the making, it is being printed at a time where I am processing my own broken heart, perhaps one of the most painful and difficult things I have had to do.

The book is a deconstructed love letter to a former lover, composed by Klipstein, and consisting of constant measurements of the negative space between her and him. The measurements - for me - represent the unceasing attempt to understand that which we never really can, no matter how unbridgeable distances may be, we don’t easily give up.

As we flip through the book - we see these measurements spun into beautiful and sensuous sculptures and drawings. Early in my life I experienced the healing properties of art, and in this book, Efrat weaves the pain, the joy, and the distance, into a beautifully woven testimony to love.

Excited to see the results of the first wet proof for Simon Emond’s new book ‘Say My Name’, which we will soon print at Trifolio, in Verona. For this wetproof we experimented with Tritone printing, seen here on three different types of paper, without lamination / with matte lamination / gloss lamination. Next up we will make the dummy, and in March we print!
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Ravis de découvrir les résultats de notre premier Wet Proof pour le nouveau livre de Simon Emond, ‘Dis Mon Nom’, que nous imprimerons bientôt chez Trifolio, à Vérone. Pour ce tirage d’essai, nous avons expérimenté l’impression en tritone, présentée ici sur trois types de papier différents, sans pelliculage / avec pelliculage mat / avec pelliculage brillant. La prochaine étape sera la réalisation du dummy, et en mars, nous passons à l’impression !