Barcelona Original

The Sketching Lover's Companion

Author/s: Lapin
Co-edition with: Promopress
Collection: Carnet de Voyage

Sometimes humorous, sometimes smart and always accompanied by exquisite drawings, this book depicts the personal vision of his adoptive city, Barcelona, by the French illustrator, Lapin. The book explores the city’s streets and bars as well as its peculiarities: dragons and giants, the vermouth aperitif, Modernist architecture, palm trees and beaches. A thoroughly enjoyable collection which is both familiar and exotic.

City

Architecture

Neighbourhood

Drawing

Public Space

Lapin

Lapin is a French illustrator, artist and urban sketcher based in Barcelona. He can be defined as a mobile illustrator who carries his sketchbook and his compact sketching gear into the street, into a bar, into the metro, to Istanbul or Tokyo. Lapin has already filled around 200 sketchbooks over the last 20 years. He is particularly fond of sketching on vintage accounting books from the 1970s, which he finds in flea markets.