A 400-page career overview with over 400 illustrations.

This great luxurious album offers a full panorama of the work of Francois Schuiten: scenography, architecture, painting, etc.

For forty years, Francois Schuiten has built an idiosyncratic and polymorphic work. It is first subdivided in a comic strip, culminating with success in the series The Obscure Cities in the company of Benoit Peeters. But this watchmaker of dreams has very quickly established links with the theater, the arts of the scene and museography. Architect of the event, an intervener in the city as much as in life, Schuiten has achieved tremendous scenographic as "A Planet of Visions" at the Universal Exhibition in Hanover (five million visitors in 2000), urban design (the metro station Arts and Crafts in Paris, the stellar lace in Lille), scenery and costume design for operas and for the cinema, or even the creation of prestigious places (Maison Autrique and the future Train World in Brussels, Home Jules Verne in Amiens). As to the projects that are remnants of the utopias of paper, this book reveals all their magnitude ...