If one day you have the opportunity to do your shopping in any Palermo’s market, you will notice that in the paper in which they wrap your meat or vegetables, you almost always will find a nice detail: a drawing, a phrase, a thank you...
But inevitably after emptying the purchase, you throw it away. Instead, Carmela and Giulia thought they could give a much longer and creative second life to these wrappers that tell a part of the history of Palermo’s historic markets. And so, they created Edizione Precarie and decided to turn the paper used to wrap and protect food into notebooks and letter paper kits that can also preserve many other things, as your dreams, projects or your most unspeakable secrets.
A unique way of writing and “preserve” your travel in notebooks that hide between their pages so many stories, waiting to receive yours. Just as you don’t always find strawberries or pumpkins in the market, because each one has its own season, each notebook style is unique and diverse not only in size, but also in colors and even textures!
You can find notebooks in different styles, more fishy ones, carnivorous and sweeter ones, and even a collection of small notebooks with Sicilian riddles.
The space of Edizione Precarie hosts also works by other artists and designers and is additionally a place where from time to time there are workshops in graphic printing, hand stamping, embroidery ....
An artisanal project of design and graphics that was born ten years ago and that, like the markets themselves, is always in transformation.
As of the writing of this article, they are located at:
EDIZIONI PRECARIE
Via Alessandro Paternostro, 75 Palermo
You can also follow them on Instagram @edizioniprecarie