The Vespiary Book Binding & Book Conservation

I’ve been loving the weekly feature in the New York Times, One in Eight Million, which features a short profile of a New York denizen.  Each entry is a beautiful set of black and white portraits narrated by the subject.  This week’s selection was a long time art restorer named Teresa Zakow. She talks about the comfort of continuing her craft after the loss of her husband and fellow restorer, Joel Zakow, who passed away in 2006. Being from Poland, she has an accent that closely resembles my grandmother’s, which makes this bio all the more endearing to me.