Salon Series 56: The History and Craft of French Sign Painting

In Lettres Décoratives: A Century of French Sign Painter Alphabets’, sign painter Morgane Côme introduces readers to the dazzling chromolithographic albums of painted letters published in France beginning in the mid-nineteenth century. Joan Côme in conversation with Sam Roberts for a whirlwind tour of these albums. Côme will share observations on the stylistic features of the alphabets they contain and discuss where the work sits within the wider history of French sign painting, while Roberts will bring international perspective to the discussion, relating the material to sign painting abroad and exploring what it can offer to the contemporary sign painting trade.