This lavishly illustrated book, organized by Peabody Essex Museum Curator of Textiles and Costumes Paula Bradstreet Richter, accompanied PEM's spectacular 2008 spring-summer exhibition, which explored aesthetic expressions related to weddings from a global panoply of cultures over the past three centuries.
By examining the wedding as an impetus for creativity, Wedded Bliss provides fresh insight into a subject that proves to be less familiar than might be supposed and probes a complex, often highly charged, human experience.
The wide variety of objects, from paintings and sculpture to textiles, furnishings, and costumes required a less formal design "vernacular" than accommodated by the traditional museum-catalogue format. A highlight of the book is the period-costume photography commissioned especially for the catalogue.
Complete editorial work (line and copy editing, proofreading, text management, and index compilation)
Full design program (dust jacket, cover, and interior)
Type composition
Collaboration with printer on separations and correcting color proofs