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Joost Elffers is an American artist, designer, publisher and writer. He was the founder of Joost Elffers Books in New York City.

Book by Elffers, Joost.

This is a book full of wrapping paper sheets based on 16 of MC Escher's designs.

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The book, published by Abrams, Inc. in , is authored by Joost Elffers and includes 40 pages of stunning designs.

Giftwraps by Artists: English Floral Patterns: by Joost Elffers and William Kilburn.

Background

The place and date of his birth are unknown.

Education

Joost Elffers studied art.

Career

Joost and his collaborators Michael Schuyt and Bab Westerveld produced Cat’s Cradles and Other String Figures in 1979.

They transform what might have been an ordinary book about children’s string games into a work of “anthropology,” according to Robert Fox in the Times Educational Supplement. Fox deemed Cat’s Cradles and Other String Figures to be “an unexpectedly thrilling and profound little book.” Before that Joost worked with Fred Leeman under Hidden Images.

In Textile Designs, Elffers and Susan Meller compile and organize nearly two thousand examples of textile designs, a collection spanning two centuries and several countries.