Cinabre

Founded by Solveig Placier, a publisher and lecturer with a passion for fine arts, travel, and multicultural history, Cinabre Publishing takes its name from red mercury sulfide, which was once used in China to achieve immortality and as a bright red pigment almost everywhere in the world.

Cinabre publishes fine arts books that place travel back at the heart of art history. The publisher’s collections trace the journeys of artists, works, and materials to explore sources of inspiration, creative processes, networks of influence, the history of taste and collecting, and the multicultural exchanges that have shaped art history and continue to inspire contemporary visual art.