FAZZI NANINI EDITIONS
Fazzi Nanini Editions
Fazzi Nanini Editions began as a somewhat secret publishing house for my short stories and artist’s books. Its first publication was a slim volume, Marble Cake (1994), designed to be slipped between books in libraries and fall into your hands by chance.
Similarly thin books followed, until one day there was enough space to fit the title on the spine. As the writing expanded, it gathered drawings, letters and diaries; catalogues were printed, and soon there was a library that documented our lives. Always, the writing begins with photographs, although memory occasionally takes their place.
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Fazzi and Nanini were beloved cats, born in Clydebank, Scotland, 1989 – one black the other white and tabby – named after Italian cafes we frequented at the time. Fazzi (the cafe) was located on Cambridge Street, Glasgow, owned and run by its founding Italian family, whose warmth made us feel at home in a new city. We’d recently arrived from Italy, where we’d been regulars at Pasticceria Nannini, not from Piazza del Campo, Siena. Somewhere along the way, Nannini shed an n, quite when and why I can’t remember. What I do recall is that his fur was as delicate as a scattering of icing sugar, and that Fazzi’s dark presence was often mistaken for a shadow; he was my first assistant, always at my side. Their names have been typeset since the first book was printed, spanning the years since FN EDITIONS began.
Founded London, 1994
Located Aldeburgh, Suffolk
