So happy to see Letter & Lark make its Stationery Show debut: designer Colleen Ellse’s line of letterpress cards and prints are simple + sweet without being twee. Not to mention, I’m in love with her handwriting, and thus the Letter & Lark press kit is going into the “save” pile.
birds of new england print
baking everyday card
press kit
all photos by jane potrykus/for more photos from the show, visit my “stationery show 2013” flickr set
One booth that I never miss at NSS is Sweet Bella. Their roster of vendors is a marvelous mix of sophisticated workaday and avant-garde product. It gives me a good chance to visit perennial favorites, like Korea’s O-Check and Italy’s Antica Cartotecnica, as well as see what owner Nina Allen’s unfailing eye has discovered while I’ve been away. This year, I was all about the Maison Martin Margiela collection from L’Atelier d’Exercises, pictured above. I love my MMM “Tabi” shoes, so of course fell hard for the stationery version, chicly interpreted as a leather bookmark. Utilitarian luxe indeed. Also from L’Atelier d’Exercies is the “endless notes” (above, far left). Write, then rip off the strip of paper to suit the message length. Fantastic.
Embarrassingly, I have yet to visit Sweet Bella’s retail boutique, Top Hat, located on Broome Street in NYC’s Lower East Side. Next visit: and while I’m at it, lunch at The Fat Radish, too.
photos by jane potrykus. to see more from the show, visit my flickr set, “stationery show 2013”
Charleston, SC just may be the epicenter of all things paper at the moment. (Which is good news for me as I visit often!) Ink ♥ Meets Paper‘s booth was full of cards that were cheery, clever + fun, and it was nice to finally meet + chat with co-owners Allison and Daniel Nadeau. I am going to stock up on their confetti cards before I move, because who wouldn’t like to find a little confetti happiness in the mail from across the ocean?
hip hip hooray
hip hip hooray (better detail)**
it will be okay
photos by jane potrykus, with the exception of ** , from inkmeetspaper.etsy.com / for more from ink ♥ meets paper + other booths at the show, visit my flickr set “stationery show 2013”
Ornament Letterpress was an oasis of serenity in the middle of the crazy that is Javits. Designer Miranda Hunt Borden’s work is heavily influenced by textiles, but I’d say she has an eye for botanicals, too: her fern notecards (available to purchase at the Ornament Letterpress Etsy shop) are magnificent.
photos by jane potrykus/for more from the show, visit my flickr set “stationery show 2013”
Lemon Drop Papers’ line of greeting cards decorated with functional, tiny envelopes completely enchanted me. (And reminded me of a fantastic installation by Cheree Berry for Kate Spade.)
you’re the bestest
sending you some love
all photos by jane potrykus/see more from the show at my flickr set “stationery show 2013”
