This book is published on the occasion of an exposition of the work of Antoine + Manuel at the Museum of Decorative Arts in Paris from 15th of January to 12 April 2009.
Antoine + Manuel's work "is free, hedonistic and entertaining. Tree structures blossom until they smother taste, and when they think they are worn out (or have been copied to much), they rush back to centre stage with a new magic trick. This 'graphictainment' is certainly their only trademark: a parade of styles, characters, tools and signs that march past our eyes in a joyous procession that does not draw its imaginativeness from Basel's post-modernism or its freedom from Poland's poster school. References to graphic arts history are not their strong suit and, certain that 'isms' have had their day, they have only a measured reverence for the past." (Emmanuel Berard, collector & critic).