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Publication date: October 2026 - Orders will be shipped from October 2026

A 432 page book, over 1,000 images, English, hardcover, 30 x 25 cm, priced at €85 TVAC each. 

Edited by Jean-Pierre Gabriel

Texts by Jill d’Alessandro, Rita Brown, Daniela Ferretti, Erik Orsenna, Alberto Ruy Sánchez, Axel Vervoordt.

Isabelle de Borchgrave, the eponymous monograph, extensively illustrated, takes us on a journey through the artist’s projects, showing how they take shape through sketchbooks and models, right through to full-scale creations, whether they be queen’s gowns, pleated paintings, botanical floor lamps...

A Brussels native, Isabelle has travelled the world with her creations, from Mulhouse to Potsdam and Istanbul, from San Francisco and Memphis to New York, from Venice and Turin to Osaka, from São Paulo to Paris, Versailles or Tsarskoye Selo. Among her most significant exhibitions, one is captivated by the figures of Papiers à la Mode, Frida Kahlo, Mariano Fortuny, the Medici, Der Modeaffe, Venaria Reale, Picasso and his Seven Women, Blind Date, Lochmann Hall...

Like Picasso, she might say, ‘When I work, I feel rested’, for Isabelle de Borchgrave has lived a life of constant motion, centred on a creativity in which paper is the medium and colour the language.