Nijhof & Lee have been very fortunate to have acquired a limited number of copies of the first edition of this sought after work which was published on the occasion of the award to Karel Martens of the Dr. A.H.Heineken Prize for Art in 1996.

The work of Karel Martens occupies an intriguing place in the present European art & design landscape. Martens can be placed in the tradition of Dutch modernism - in the line of figures such as Piet Zwart, H.N.Werkman and Willem Sandberg. His work is both personal and experimental; at the same time it is publicly answerable. Over the 36 years of his design practice Martens has been a prolific designer of books and he has made significant contributions in the areas of postage stamps, coins, and building signage. Intimately connected with this design work has been his practice as a free styled artist.
This book looks for new ways to show and discuss the work of a designer and artist, and is offered in the same spirit of experiment and dialogue that characterizes the work that it presents.

A collectors item!