Le Fanu
I have just received Giordano Berti's latest release, The Oriental Tarot - or Tarocchi Foudraz - a Chinese-style deck from Turin dating from 1845 by Claudio Foudraz. It is breathtaking. Like nothing else among historical tarots. All the excesses of late roccoco chinoiserie but in Marseilles poses. It is really quite extraordinary and you can see more about it here. I love historical tarots but this really is like nothing else - the silk, drapery, poise and billowing pantaloons and lightning-struck pagoda (card XVI). It is so dramatic and elegant. My goodness - and nobody has mentioned it here! It breathes new life into familiar tarot poses and really makes you see tarot afresh.
I have his Sola Busca and Vergnano and Perrin and now this - but this is in a category of its own and a lovely little booklet about Oriental style in the decorative arts and tarot
I have his Sola Busca and Vergnano and Perrin and now this - but this is in a category of its own and a lovely little booklet about Oriental style in the decorative arts and tarot