Depero Futurista – The Bolted Book – a New Facsimile
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Welcome to the official website for the Bolted Book, featuring the first exact copy of Fortunato Depero’s 1927 masterpiece of graphic design and bookmaking—Depero Futurista. This historic facsimile—hailed by de Volkskrant in Amsterdam as “the most beautiful publication of the year”—was  published in 2017 by Designers & Books in collaboration with the Center for Italian Modern Art in New York and the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Trento and Rovereto, Italy. The edition has sold out and is currently out of print. All 240 pages of the original 1927 book are shown below.        

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