Laurel Parker is founder and artistic director of Laurel Parker Book, an artisanal bookbinding studio, combing design with fabrication, that makes books, boxes and cases. She is a graduate of the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and Tufts University, and has studied and taught at the Center for Book Arts in New York. Parker leads workshops and gives talks at art and design schools internationally.
Paul Chamard studied engraving at École Estienne, where he obtained his National Diploma in Art and Design in 2007. He then obtained his Master’s in artist books at Strasbourg’s Haute École des Arts du Rhin, in 2011. Chamard joined Laurel Parker Book that same year, taking charge of production and leading the studio’s team of technicians.
