European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 3, 1959, Darmstadt, Hesse By associated press Anthoula and Andrew Ganiaris in their Athens workshop. Most of the Fine bindings Are done on special order. Practitioners of a neglected Art 1 an inherited love for books led a brother and sifter in Athens into careers As creators of Fine bindings covers Are intended to reflect Content of books. Andrew uses a hot Iron and Wax to age leather Friday july 3, 1959 the Ganiaris with their father right in showroom. The stars and stripes the Ganiaris Andrew and his Sisterna Thonila both in their Early thirties Are bookbinders in Athens Greece. Not the run of the Mill variety however. Every single binding they turn out is a work of takes the Ganiaris team two weeks on average to bind and decorate a Book the entire process being done by hand. The design on the cover As Well As the color and texture of the material leather paper or fabric used for the binding Are inspired by the text of the Book. The Ganiaris Are unique in Greece. There Are probably not Many like them in the re St of the thing is that neither Anthoula nor Andrew at the outset planned to make a living out of bookbinding. She studied classical dancing. He went in for political science and was juvenile courts probation officer for a while. But love of Beautiful books was something they inherited from their father a publisher lost a Fortune in the 30s trying to introduce popular priced pocket size editions of new Mother was the first person in Greece to revolt against the Long established custom of binding stiff backed books uniformly in Black got so interested in bookbinding that she opened a shop Booklover Corner and Learned to do All the cover designing and actual binding single handed. Booklover Corner had to close Down when she was killed toward the end of world War ii. Anthoula then in her teens went on with artistic bookbinding As a exhibition of Anthoula s bindings in Athens a few years ago so interested the italian embassy cultural attache that he got her a scholarship to study medieval bookbinding in florence., this encouraged Anthoula to reopen Booklover Corner. She found unexpected help from her brother Andrew who turned out to be gifted in drawing. He too studied bookbinding in Florence also acquainting himself with modern techniques in the course of a lengthy visit to the Ecol Estienne the famed Paris school of Decora Tive arts. Booklover Corner is now a tiny show place where the Ganiaris have accumulated a wide Range of samples of their work. The bulk of their work is done to Cost anything Between $1 and $100, per Book. Page h
