Roger Excoffons’s Diane for Le Mépris by Alberto Moravia, 1964.

Club de la femme is a book series aimed at women readers, published by Éditions Rombaldi between circa 1955 and 1972, under the direction of Louis Pauwels (1920–1997). The books were exclusively available to subscribers to the club, and came in a bibliophilic get-up. Shown here are three title pages from novels published in the mid 1960s. The designer is unknown. If you happen to know more, let us know in a comment.

Sonia by Pierre Daninos, 1965, ft. Lettres Ornées and Grotesque No. 9.

Profil and more Grotesque No. 9 for Les balladins de la Margeride by Jean Lartéguy, 1965.

This luggage label from the great collection of Tom Schifanella (Art of the Label) is probably from around 1960.

The three-dimensional bold italic Egyptienne was designed by the brothers Lenz, Eugen (1916–2004) and Max (1919–1998), and first cast by the Haas foundry in 1947 as Profil. The script is Roger Excoffon’s Diane. It was issued by Fonderie Olive in 1956—the same year that the Stuttgart TV Tower (depicted on the left) was placed in service.

Hotel Brenner was located close to the Stuttgart Hauptbahnhof (maybe on Friedrichstraße), which can be see in the background. The rotating and illuminated Mercedes-Benz star on top its tower (behind the second N) was mounted already in 1952.

Diane’s caps are so elaborately decorated with swirly strokes that the metal sorts were labeled with plain letters to avoid confusion. They later were amended with a simpler design. A specimen from 1974 shows both sets of caps. Diane has been revived several times; by Jason Walcott as Debonair JF (Jukebox, 2000, simple caps), by Thierry Puyfoulhoux as Diana (Présence Typo, 2004, original caps), and by Mark Simonson as Diane Script (GroupType, 2008, contains both sets of caps).

Profil was digitized by Bitstream as Decorated 035.