Mohammad Eslāmpanāh, Traditional Bookbinder of Kerman, Artist, and Manuscript Scholar, Has Passed Away
I still remember the day, as a teenager, when I accidentally saw the half-open door of his bookbinding shop in the Kerman bazaar. A unique world lay behind that door: traditional bookbinding, beside leather designs inspired by René Magritte—a dreamlike place where discussions of manuscripts and Tarkovsky films intertwined.With a laugh and a touch of frustration, he once said that…