Father + Son

This collection of photographs by British fashion designer Paul Smith and his father, Harold Smith, is an attractive, collectible, prelude to a major book by Paul Smith, to be published by Violette Editions in autumn 2001. Pocket-size and bound as an unusual two-volume paperback, this series of personal photographs, by a father and son who share strong affinities in work and play, sums up, in its own small way, the humour and acute observation which Paul Smith has brought uniquely to British design. No other British designer has so successfully combined commercial astuteness with wit, originality and the highest standards of craftsmanship.