Phillippa Mills – commission from Assouline
Piano forte
Phillippa was recently commissioned by Assouline to create an illustration for one of their upcoming books. Assouline is a publisher of exquisitely crafted luxury books, as well as selling fragrances and objets d’art and even running an excellent bar at their London store, Maison Assouline in Piccadilly.
The book is ‘The Piano Lesson’, a celebration of the Netflix film of the same name starring Samuel L. Jackson and Erykah Badu, and directed by Malcolm Washington, based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning play by August Wilson. It contains on-set film photography, personal contributions from cast and crew, production design plans, and lots more. Also included is a poem about gravitropism, the influence of gravity on the growth of plants. It was this which Phillippa was asked to illustrate, which she did with this painting of a snapdragon.
The book is now in print and available from Assouline online, or from their stores around the world.