Friday, November 13, 2009

Covering by coloring




These book covers kill me.

They are all Edizioni la Conchiglia, a series of books dealing exclusively with Capri matters.

The design is not typographically correct and the layout isn't really well executed but, i colori, when you run into them in any of Capri's (three?) book stores they sort of smile in your face.

Right now I'm reading Le Case raccontano. Storie e passioni nelle dimore del mito a Capri. (”Houses telling stories. Tales and passions from dwellings of myth on Capri”)

Reading is maybe not quite accurate, trying to understand would be more to the point.

Some, a few, of the Conchiglia books are in English, this one isn't and so much the better. These stories are so intriguing I have to force myself to read in Italian with my limited knowledge. That, also, kills me.

Che gioia leggere.