Ingrid De Coster – Six impossible things before breakfast
Book Launch Autumn 2023

Six impossible things before breakfast has been nominated for The Best Dutch Book Designs 2023, by the professional jury as well as the student jury.

Order: contact ingrid.dcstr@gmail.com

ISBN 978-94-93329-05-8
Price €45
Idea Ingrid De Coster
Fellow travellers Bas Schevers, Loes Verstappen
Publisher Jap Sam Books
Photography Bas Schevers with Ingrid De Coster
Lithography Marc Gijzen
Graphic design Loes Verstappen with Ingrid De Coster
Text Bruno De Wachter, Ingrid De Coster
Translation Patrick Lennon 
Text editing Loes Verstappen, Eleonoor Jap Sam
Printing Zwaan Lenoir 
Binder Patist
Edition 1000 copies, including 120 in special hand punched edition
Number of pages 296  
Book size 17 x 22,95 cm
Paper Emotion Touch 1.5 Natural White, Maxi Satin, Muskat Brown
Binding Softcover, unbounded
Language Dutch / English 
 
* Next to the regular edition, the book has a special hand punched cover edition of 120 copies, €67 

Special thanks to all those whose words, thoughts and actions filled this book

The publication Six impossible things before breakfast is a journey across twenty-five years of Verzameld Werk [Collected Work] and beyond. It was founded in 1991, with Ingrid De Coster as one to its founders.

For this book, Ingrid De Coster collaborated with Loes Verstappen and Bas Schevers. Their point of departure, the motley collection of images from in and around Verzameld Werk, spread out on a table. Bruno De Wachter was invited to respond to the newly formed configurations and he did so with a prose poem. Along these lines, Verzameld Werk rewrote and continues to rewrite itself through the gaze of the other. Leaf by leaf.