Bonjour
Bonjour
Cabaret Typographie
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Artist Cabaret Typographie
Title Bonjour
Year 2026
Technique 3-color letterpress printing from laser-cut MDF matrices
Format 50 x 70 cm
Paper Materica Gesso gr. 250
Print run 20 signed and numbered copies
Unframed
About the workshop
A few steps off Corso Lodi in Milan, a stationery and print shop has been open since 1909. Costante and Luigia Bonvini founded it as the neighbourhood's place for paper and ink. More than a century later, the original presses still run.
In 2014, a group of friends rescued the shop from disappearing, restoring it with architects who specialise in cultural heritage. The machines - a 19th-century platen press, an Imperial Cylinder Press, a Heidelberg Stella - were returned to working order.
Bonvini 1909 is now part print shop, part gallery, part cultural institution. Every piece carries the particular character that only a hand-fed press can produce - the slight variation, the impression in the paper, the evidence of a human hand.
$15 flat shipping, Australia-wide — free over $300.
Cabaret Typographie is a letterpress collective founded in Milan and Paris in 2010 by Laura Dal Maso, Mauro De Toffol and Tommaso Pucci, printing everything by hand from their Milan residency at Atelier Bonvini 1909 since 2022.
Librairie Eyrolles has been selling art and design books from the Boulevard Saint-Germain since 1950 - the kind of shop where you go in for one thing and leave an hour later with something else entirely. In 2026, Cabaret Typographie showed new work in Le 55, the gallery space at the back, as part of an exhibition called Elastic Type.
Bonjour was made for that show. Letterpress-printed from laser-cut MDF matrices on 250gsm Materica Gesso at 50 × 70 cm, it is one of twenty signed and numbered copies, made at their Milan atelier inside Bonvini 1909 on Via Tagliamento.
Made for one room in Paris. Exclusive to Australia.
