My dear friend Alison told me about Bowne & Co. shortly after her first visit there. These images are from her trip around Valentine's Day. To her description, I probably replied with something articulate (as I'm known to do) like, "sounds cool..."Yesterday we visited, and the place put me in a tizzy. It is so lame how excited I was. I think I was so excited that I had no idea what I was saying - the words just spilled out, good ones, bad ones (not that kind of bad). Sometimes I think my midwestern "charm" comes across as lunacy.
Okay. So. This place is a recreation of a nineteenth-century stationer's shop. The staff was really friendly and they make all sorts of neat stuff - a variety of notecards, little journals, etc. There was also a ton of work by other artists. Robert Warner is head of awesomeness (I mean master printer) there, and during our visit he was working on some ideas as to how he might use old bank papers in his creations (sorry I can't be more specific, I was too excited). He obviously knows a lot about printing and ephemera, and the contemporary art inspired by or related to its history. Robert also tracks down vintage wallpaper - I bought a piece with little country house scenes floating amongst a foliate design. I also bought a notecard with a print of a printing press on it! And a charming piece made using elements from different antique (reproduced, not original, I think) prints! The stuff is affordable, and so cool. If you are into paper products, prints and ephemera, and anything remotely ye olde, go there.
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