Book launch with contributors
Jonas Prapuolenis STUDIJA
19:00, Wednesday, 11 September 2024
After 8 Books
7 rue Jarry ÷ 75010 Paris
Dear friends we are so pleased to invite you to Paris launch of our new book - Jonas Prapuolenis STUDIJA:
This publication serves as a photographic document and proposal to preserve Jonas Prapuolenis’ (1900–1980) hand-built Studio in which he designed and produced most of his work over a remarkable and inventive career. The Studio sits on a nearly century-old site in the Žaliakalnis neighbourhood of Kaunas (Lithuania) alongside Prapuolenis’ home and surrounding garden, which continue to be cared for by his son, Bangutis Prapuolenis.
Jonas Prapuolenis was a designer, artist, and educator who interpreted the textures and qualities of local timber, and its particular, unique structures and patterns shaped by the local climate and terrain and translated its geometries into artistic furniture pieces.
Photography: Rasa Juškevičiūtė
Design: Goda Budvytytė
Editors: Jurga Daubaraitė, Jonas Žukauskas
Texts: Aistė Dičkalnytė, Kotryna Lingienė, Jurga Daubaraitė and Jonas Žukauskas
Photography assistant: Marija Olšauskaitė
Colour grading: Danielius Samulevič
Lithuanian language copy-editor and English translator: Alexandra Bondarev;
Lithuanian language copy-editor for foreword: Aira Niauronytė
English language copy-editor: Gemma Lloyd
Published by: Kirvarpa
Printed by: Kopa
Edition: 500
Financed by Lithuanian Council for Culture
