Artists' Books

SHV

SHV

Irma Boom
Special Collections, Rhode Island School of Design
Fleet Library, Rhode Island School of Design

Description

[2136] pages : illustrations (some color). Book commissioned by Paul Fentener van Vlissingen, chairman of SHV Holdings, and designed by Irma Boom in editorial collaboration with art historian Johann Pijnappel to celebrate the centenary SHV. Edition of 500 copies in English and 300 copies in Chinese. Printed by Rosbeek, Nuth, Netherlands. Three sheets of stamps are mounted inside the front and back covers. Decorated fore-edge papers with a poem in Dutch and a color illustration of a field of tulips. SHV Energy is a family-owned multinational organization that consists of a group of specialised energy companies