Servilletas: Spanish Napkins
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This collection of paper napkins from eating establishments throughout Spain features images and type treatments from bars, cervercerías, asadors, cafes, pizzerias, heladerias, pastry shops, and restaurants.
There are 600 different napkins reproduced in this cocktail napkin-sized book (4.9" x 6.3"), all of them gathered by Madrid-based photographer Felipe Hernández, whose work often focuses on urban nightlife.
The napkins are arranged from breakfast-oriented coffee shops through pastry and dessert shops for winding down an evening. Some napkins are serviceable, others fanciful. Milord's Express in Alicante advertises itself as a cafeteria and croissanteria; Cervecería Köln in Madrid may be targeting beer-drinking Germans, and a cluster of napkins from roadside service areas features drawings of buses.
Servilletas tells us that Hernandez spent more than a decade gathering the napkins, and that at least some of them are the last traces of vanished places. These disposable icons often "neither clean nor absorb," but they represent the imagination of neighborhoods and cities, even while they celebrate "the beauty of the useless."
Paperback. Color photographs throughout. One napkin per page. In Spanish and English.
Published on April 1, 2026
