Louise Bescond was born in Les Lilas, outside Paris, in 1984 and has lived in Brussels since 2005.

After graduating in 2005 from the École Supérieure des Arts et Industries Graphiques Estienne graphic arts school, she entered the École Supérieure des Arts Visuels de La Cambre, in Belgium, where she earned a master’s degree in bookbinding in 2008.
In 2013, Pierre Walusinski helped launch her career by organizing the first exhibition of her work at the Librairie Nicaise in Paris. Between 2015 and 2019, she took a four-week advanced training course with Renaud Vernier, a master bookbinder. In February 2017, with the support of Pierre Bergé and Anne Heilbronn, Philippe Luiggi and Michel Scognamillo exhibited 47 of her bindings at the Galerie Charpentier (Sotheby’s Paris). In December 2021, Michel Scognamillo exhibited 38 of her latest bindings at the Librairie Métamorphoses in Paris.