tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-51467098822735824852024-03-13T08:37:51.450-04:00Parvum OpusMusings on desk accessories, books and decorative arts.Parvum Opushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15464815622667738686noreply@blogger.comBlogger56125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5146709882273582485.post-13832457725371168712016-07-16T17:07:00.001-04:002016-07-16T17:07:51.839-04:00Meet Our New Obelisks<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">We're delighted to introduce our handmade obelisks. Each one is constructed completely by hand from archival bookbinders' boards (19 pieces-- quite a puzzle!) and stunning hand-marbled papers from around the world. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">This has been a fun project for us. Having admired antique obelisks made from specimen stones, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; line-height: 22.4px;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">papier-mâché</span></span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"> and other interesting materials, it was a challenge to translate these elements of classical design for production in the bindery.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">As is our mission with all of our work in the bindery, we've designed and crafted these obelisks with the intention of creating heirlooms for the future. Every element has been designed and selected for its enduring quality, from the artfully made papers to the solid brass ball feet. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">We've made a batch of these beauties, currently available for immediate delivery at </span><a href="http://shop.parvumopus.com/" style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;" target="_blank">The Parvum Opus Shop</a><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">. We plan to keep them in stock, having splurged on lots of stunning marbled papers... The patterns are so beautiful and are impossible to resist!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Of course, we're always happy to accept commissions for pieces in special-order papers and design elements (the next batch will feature obelisks with mounted grand tour intaglios... stay tuned!).</span><br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><span style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><a href="http://shop.parvumopus.com/Notepads-Folios-Books-Journals_c10.htm" target="_blank"><img alt="Bespoke Portfolios by Parvum Opus" border="0" height="267" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7kTby5D2ZBc2bsbWcuxMnqLFRj_EJlN4h6EMsmcCHOtdR8CmWQ30gb4-Ac9XLb4Q8I8rOI6oPPVnR8EL_R2kWxC3p8mIsU0ZyBjccsUw_FqddbQKGYflSFkCxJvNM9Gwjy5eWbBIoMro/s400/folio+and+flowers+italian+block+print.jpg" title="Bespoke Portfolios by Parvum Opus" width="400" /></a></span></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">A 9x12" portfolio made with a stunning block-printed Italian paper <br />and jaunty red book cloth. Visit the <a href="http://shop.parvumopus.com/Notepads-Folios-Books-Journals_c10.htm" target="_blank">shop</a> for details.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">It's been another busy month in the bindery, and after having made many bespoke portfolios for designers and artists over the years, we've finally added them to our shop's collection. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">A view of another portfolio laid open: this one is in a blue marbled paper handmade in France. It looks so perfect with one of my desk calendar illustrations that I was tempted to make another one for myself! Visit the <a href="http://shop.parvumopus.com/Notepads-Folios-Books-Journals_c10.htm" target="_blank">shop</a> for details.<br /></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Many of our clients commission portfolios to present their work, and with so many patterns and colors available, it's easy to find the perfect paper to frame their work or design scheme.</span><div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Another version of the portfolio design, this time sized to hold invitations or half-page sized artworks. More details at the <a href="http://shop.parvumopus.com/Notepads-Folios-Books-Journals_c10.htm" target="_blank">shop</a>.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><br />We're also introducing a 6x9" portfolio, popular for special invitations and announcements. Above and below are views from a set recently completed for a special occasion: each of twelve folios was made in a different color combination.. what fun!</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Here we have papers from Japan, France and Italy, all paired with colorful Italian book cloth. A charming project. Visit our <a href="http://shop.parvumopus.com/Notepads-Folios-Books-Journals_c10.htm" target="_blank">shop</a> to learn more. </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">A view of the exterior of a 9x12" portfolio: I think the book cloth <br />corners add a nice touch. These are available to order at our <a href="http://shop.parvumopus.com/Notepads-Folios-Books-Journals_c10.htm" target="_blank">shop</a>.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Here you can see the interior of a 9x12" folio: the hinge is flexible and so can accommodate a varied number of pages. For more information, visit our <a href="http://shop.parvumopus.com/Notepads-Folios-Books-Journals_c10.htm" target="_blank">shop</a>.</span></td></tr>
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Parvum Opushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15464815622667738686noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5146709882273582485.post-9922247144600458392016-05-21T14:28:00.000-04:002016-05-21T14:28:02.499-04:00Recent Work from the Bindery<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Spring is here, and the bindery is buzzing with new work. When we're busy like this, it's especially important to pause and reflect on the collaborations we enjoy with our clientele. Each one is different, and it's always such fun to customize design features or work with a new paper pattern discovered by a client. Here are a few recent pieces to inspire you. </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Above is one of our popular lidded paper trays or in-boxes, made in bespoke extra-deep dimensions and with a vibrant gold Japanese Chiyogami paper. </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Here we have a customized desk organizer, with a notched tray for note papers, a pen and pencil tray, and a standing slot for letters and envelopes. This piece was made using one of the many classic Florentine prints from Rossi. </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">A set of octagonal stacking trays made with one of our beautiful new Japanese papers. In the top tray you can see my very favorite antique netsuke and a stack of our fun new miniature desk blotter business cards. Custom made to order trays are available at <br /><a href="http://shop.parvumopus.com/">The Parvum Opus Shop</a>.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I adore exploring antique shops both close to home and when I travel, and among my favorite finds are small trays. The best ones have beautiful scale and personality, and are always the perfect thing to finish off a desk or table corner. I've designed our new range of trays with my charming antiques in mind, paying extra attention to proportion and scale. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">A set of rectangular trays in graduated sizes. This set was made with our second new paper, a beautiful Japanese Chiyogami paper with a shagreen-like pattern of<br />gold dots on a rich green ground.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Our new trays are available in rectangular and octagonal formats, in graduating sizes, with or without brass ball feet, and it's been great fun to design these latest additions to our collection. </span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">At the bindery, we're known for our meticulous craftsmanship, and it's been particularly enjoyable (I hope it's not too nerdy to say) to design a set of proprietary techniques to ensure that the corners on our octagonal trays are as sharp and crisp as those in our other trays and boxes.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">The octagonal trays, with the larger one reversed. I fell in love with this pattern as soon as I saw it. It's a hand silk-screened Chiyogami paper, still made in small batches in the traditional Japanese way, and reminds me of the intricate silk patterns found in kimono fabrics.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">The introduction of our new trays coincides with the addition of two new papers for our palette. We stock eighteen papers, which we invite you to see on our website's <a href="http://www.parvumopus.com/paper-and-book-cloth-palette.html" target="_blank">palette pages</a>. Beyond these, we work </span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">with hundreds of fine papers from around the world via special order on behalf of our clients, and it's hard not to fall in love with each one. The Japanese Chiyogami papers in particular come in more than a thousand patterns, each one special in its own way. It was a challenge to settle on our two new patterns, but I think you'll agree that both the interlocking circle design and shagreen-like dotted green design are especially beautiful. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">This is the smaller of our rectangular trays, shown with one of my tiniest antique books, one of our small jacketed Moleskine journals, and an antique English salt cellar, pressed into service as a paper clip container.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I do hope you've enjoyed seeing our new arrivals, just in time for the spring. If you'd like to collaborate on your own perfectly scaled and patterned trays, or if you have a special project in mind, we are cheerfully at your service.</span>Parvum Opushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15464815622667738686noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5146709882273582485.post-910209043815764022016-02-17T17:55:00.000-05:002016-04-15T09:51:29.477-04:00The Art of the 'In-Box'<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">One of our lidded paper trays made with Il Papiro's beautiful brown <br />peacock hand marbled paper. By special order via www.parvumopus.com</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">It was a pleasure to make each of these paper trays, and there are several more in progress at this very moment-- how wonderful. We of course invite you to visit our <a href="http://shop.parvumopus.com/" target="_blank">website</a> to see more of our custom desk furnishings, or inquire about a bespoke project of your own. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"> Parvum Opus is pleased to provide desk furnishings <br />made to order in your choice of colors and patterns.<br />Visit our <a href="http://shop.parvumopus.com/" target="_blank">shop</a> for details.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">We're getting ready for a new batch of stunning papers to arrive in the bindery from around the world. Even while winter lingers, it looks like spring in the workroom with these new colorful additions. We look forward to sharing the resulting new works!</span></div>
Parvum Opushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15464815622667738686noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5146709882273582485.post-73700372643965320162015-12-11T10:16:00.000-05:002015-12-11T10:16:01.717-05:00A New Partners' Desk organizer<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">At Parvum Opus, we have the pleasure of collaborating with our clientele on beautiful bespoke projects every day, and often, our tight schedule prevents us from taking the time to photograph and share them. So today it's my pleasure to share a recently completed project: a double-sided desk organizer designed specifically for our client's Edwardian partners' desk. It features slots for stationery, pens and pencils on both sides, and measures just over 15" long. For this piece, we selected one of the world's finest handmade papers from Il Papiro, the venerable Italian papermaker. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: courier new, courier, monospace;">Happy Holidays from Parvum Opus!</span>Parvum Opushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15464815622667738686noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5146709882273582485.post-82604131850602445522015-11-02T14:16:00.000-05:002015-11-02T14:16:54.152-05:00Desk Calendars, Looking Back...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">As our new calendar for the coming year is flying out the door (I'm impressed at how organized our clientele is, as always-- I won't start my own holiday shopping for quite some time!), I'm feeling nostalgic for all of the beautiful objets d'art that I've had the privilege to study and paint over the last five years. Here, starting with the new batch, is a little trip down memory lane...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">The paintings for 2015-- that tea caddy in the top row is one of my personal favorites:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">We actually began producing calendars on a very small scale for friends and family in 2010, but sadly, those images have been lost. Even still, it's lovely to look back through five years' worth of these small jewels and think of all the hours happily spent minutely observing these beautiful treasures of the decorative arts. We certainly hope that all of you who have purchased calendars for yourselves and as gifts will find them beautiful and useful throughout the coming year!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Well, perhaps it's not <i>quite</i> spring yet, but here in Michigan, a 40+ degree sunny day like today can certainly bring on a case of spring fever! And just in time, we've introduced a new series of colorful jackets for everyone's favorite notebooks from </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'courier new', courier, monospace; font-size: 16px; line-height: 19.2000007629395px;">Moleskine®</span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">. Even though I make books here in the bindery, I adore filling my Moleskine cahier journals with notes, sketches, doodles.. They've been my favored sketchbooks for many years. The Moleskine covers</span><span style="text-align: center;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">we've designed are flexible, and meticulously tailored using the same Italian book cloth and fine art papers from France, Japan and Italy used in our hand-bound books. They feature rounded corners and allow access to the journal's back pocket. We've also designed a series of fun adhesive labels to personalize the covers-- such a small thing, but our clients are having great fun with them. Best of all, our cover jackets are refillable, so once a journal has been filled with genius ideas, it can be removed and a fresh one slipped in. Soon we'll be introducing slipcases sized to fit the </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'courier new', courier, monospace; line-height: 19.2000007629395px;">Moleskine® cahier journals, beautifully archiving up to twelve volumes of art- and poetry-filled journals. Stay tuned...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: courier new, courier, monospace;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.2000007629395px;">It's such fun to design a new range for the bindery, especially as we find we've tapped into the shared obsession surrounding the </span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'courier new', courier, monospace; line-height: 19.2000007629395px;">Moleskine® cahiers. Keeping journals or commonplace books is nothing new, of course, and stunning historical examples exist. If Pinterest search results are any indication, note-taking, sketching and pleine air painting are alive and well, despite the ease of 'electronic options'. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">An incredible example from the past: A page from Carl Linnaeus' commonplace<br />book, 1726-1727. You can see and read the entire <br />archive thanks to <a href="http://linnean-online.org/" target="_blank">The Linnean Society of London.</a></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Are you familiar with commonplace books? According to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonplace_book" target="_blank">Wikipedia</a>:</span></div>
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<b style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">"Commonplace books</b><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">(or</span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;"> </span><b style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">commonplaces</b><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">) were a way to compile</span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;"> </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; text-decoration: none;" title="Knowledge">knowledge</a><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">, usually by writing information into</span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;"> </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; text-decoration: none;" title="Book">books</a><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">. Such books were essentially</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrapbooking" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; text-decoration: none;" title="Scrapbooking">scrapbooks</a><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">filled with items of every kind: medical recipes, quotes, letters, poems, tables of weights and measures, proverbs, prayers, legal formulas. Commonplaces were used by readers, writers, students, and scholars as an aid for remembering useful concepts or facts they had learned. Each commonplace book was unique to its creator's particular interests. They became significant in</span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;"> </span><a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_Modern_Europe" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; text-decoration: none;" title="Early Modern Europe">Early Modern Europe</a><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">"Commonplace" is a translation of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Latin">Latin</a> term <i>locus communis</i> (from Greek <i>tópos koinós</i>, see <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literary_topos" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Literary topos">literary topos</a>) which means "a theme or argument of general application", such as a statement of proverbial wisdom. In this original sense, commonplace books were collections of such sayings, such as <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Milton" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="John Milton">John Milton</a>'s commonplace book. Scholars have expanded this usage to include any manuscript that collects material along a common theme by an individual.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Commonplace books are not <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diary" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Diary">diaries</a> nor <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travel_journal#Travelogues" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Travel journal">travelogues</a>, with which they can be contrasted: English Enlightenment philosopher <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Locke" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="John Locke">John Locke</a> wrote the 1706 book <i><a class="new" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=A_New_Method_of_Making_Common-Place-Books&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background: none; color: #a55858; text-decoration: none;" title="A New Method of Making Common-Place-Books (page does not exist)">A New Method of Making Common-Place-Books</a></i>, "in which techniques for entering proverbs, quotations, ideas, speeches were formulated. Locke gave specific advice on how to arrange material by subject and category, using such key topics as love, politics, or religion. Commonplace books, it must be stressed, are not journals, which are chronological and introspective." <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-1" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonplace_book#cite_note-1" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[1]</a></sup> By the early eighteenth century they had become an information management device in which a note-taker stored quotations, observations and definitions. They were even used by influential scientists. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Linnaeus" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Carl Linnaeus">Carl Linnaeus</a>, for instance, used commonplacing techniques to invent and arrange the nomenclature of his <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systema_Naturae" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Systema Naturae">Systema Naturae</a></i> (which is the basis for the system used by scientists today)."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Recently, we introduced our new letter sorter designs at the bindery, and their popularity leads me to believe that there must have been a bit of pent up demand for an object that was a staple of the well dressed desk in years past. I thought it would be fun to do a <a href="http://www.pinterest.com/parvumopus/antique-desk-accessories/" target="_blank">Pinterest</a> search for unusual antique and vintage letter sorters, and I came across hundreds of variations... The images on Pinterest don't always come with complete descriptions attached, but these ten are all aesthetically interesting enough that I thought you'd enjoy seeing them. Let the sorting begin!</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-small;">An elaborately moulded faience letter holder, France 1880.<br />Image via <a href="http://onlinegalleries.com/">onlinegalleries.com</a>.</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">This is something I'd never seen-- a vertical stack of </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-small;">papier-</span></span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; text-align: start;">mâché </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">wall-mounted letter sorters, </span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">English, </span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">19th C. </span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Image via <a href="http://rubylane.com/">rubylane.com</a>.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-small;">A fantastically crafted silver-gilt and champlevé enamel <br />letter holder by Antip Kuzmichev, Moscow, circa 1890.<br />Image via <a href="http://sothebys.com/">sothebys.com</a>.</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-small;">A sterling silver overlay leather desk top letter holder box, ca 1860.<br />I love the curved lid on this design--most elegant.<br />Image via <a href="http://rubylane.com/">rubylane.com</a>.</span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">This is really just the tip of the iceberg. There are countless variations in design, manufacture and materials--especially from the 19th century-- thank you Victorians! They all have style and personality, don't you think? </span><br />
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Parvum Opushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15464815622667738686noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5146709882273582485.post-18902839185864286412014-11-05T09:32:00.001-05:002014-11-05T09:32:05.926-05:00Fresh New Finds for a Cheerful Desk<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">If you've browsed my past posts here, you might have gathered that I have a passion for antique desk things. This is still true of course (!), but I've recently come across some interesting new things to add to my desk. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">.....And so on, and so on... The cheerful work continues...!</span>Parvum Opushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15464815622667738686noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5146709882273582485.post-34973087724362875262014-07-06T16:59:00.001-04:002014-07-06T16:59:37.687-04:00Sentimental Gifts for the Traveller<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Today, I'm delighted to share two recent and memorable commissions, courtesy of our thoughtful and generous clientele. Perhaps these will serve to inspire as we merrily make our way the summer graduation and wedding season. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">The first, seen above and below, is a bespoke box commissioned as a gift for a friend embarking on a long-term travel adventure. Before presenting it, our client filled the box with one hundred stamped post cards. I was struck by the simplicity and warmth of this gesture-- a beautiful invitation to keep in touch as her friend's adventure unfolds. The diminutive box, having travelled along, will make a charming souvenir long after the post cards have been sent, a reminder of the bonds of friendship. I admit that this project will be on my mind as my own friends and family set off on their own exploits!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">The next project is similarly adventure-related: this one is a travel escritoire, or traveller's writing set. Contained in the small hinged box are compartments for stationery, a small German <i>Kaweco Sport</i> fountain pen and refill cartridges, postage stamps, address labels, and a travel journal. Besides the requisite blank pages, the hand-sewn journal includes pages for recording addresses, birthdays and anniversaries. It also includes a map of world time zones and stellar constellation charts for the northern and southern hemispheres-- a must for every adventurer, wouldn't you agree?! Of course, all of these functions are easily replaced by the apps on most smart phones, but for many of us, hand-written notes in a paper journal make a denser, more romantic and memorable souvenir of a long trip than typed notes in a phone or laptop. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Along with these projects, we have made countless traveller's picture frames and hand-bound journals for clients wishing to send a bit of home along with their loved ones, and we always enjoy these heart-warming collaborations. This sort of work is a great pleasure for us, and I hope that you'll be as inspired by these gestures of friendship and camaraderie as we have been. </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Our May 2014 calendar illustration: an Iranian fritware beaker, </span><br />
<span style="color: #666666; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">from the 12th-13th centuries. Image copyright <a href="http://www.parvumopus.com/" target="_blank">Parvum Opus</a>. </span></td></tr>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="line-height: 22.399999618530273px;">When I was searching for subjects to paint for our 2014 calendar, I came across the beautiful beaker you see above in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. I was instantly drawn to the colors and imagery in this ancient piece, although I had no knowledge of this category of objects. It's one of the things I love most about creating our calendar: a piece will catch my eye, and then, wonderfully, lead me down a path of investigation and discovery that I may have missed otherwise! </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-small;">Image courtesy the <a href="http://jameelcentre.ashmolean.org/collection" target="_blank">Ashmolean Museum</a>, University of Oxford.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="line-height: 22.399999618530273px;">This class of pottery is referred to as Islamic stonepaste or fritware, among other names. According to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritware" target="_blank">Wikipedia</a>, "frit</span></span></span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.399999618530273px;"> is a ceramic </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.399999618530273px;">composition that has been fused in a special fusing oven, quenched to form a glass, and granulated." Islamic pottery of this period incorporated frit with the clay to produce a mixture that could be fired at a lower temperature than pure clay. Interestingly, a 'how-to' book on this specialized form of pottery survives. It was written in about the year 1300 by </span></span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Abu'l Qasim bin Ali bin Muhammed bin Abu Tahir. </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 18px;"><a href="http://archaeology.about.com/od/islamicarchaeology/ig/Islamic-Lustreware-/Islamic-Historian.htm" target="_blank">Abu'l Qasim</a> was member of an important family of potters as well as a historian to the Mongol court. His recipes for fritware and lusterware are part of a larger work entitled T</span><i style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">he Virtues of Jewels and the Delicacies of Perfume. </span></i><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">An Iranian fritware ewer, ca. 11th-13th centuries.<br />Image courtesy <a href="http://cartelen.louvre.fr/cartelen/visite?srv=car_not_frame&idNotice=21113" target="_blank">The Louvre</a><a href="http://cartelen.louvre.fr/cartelen/visite?srv=car_not_frame&idNotice=21113" target="_blank">.</a></span></td></tr>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">I came across a scholarly translation of this work by </span><a href="http://islamicceramics.ashmolean.org/Glossary/abulqasim.htm" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;" target="_blank">J. W. Allan</a><span style="color: #666666; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">, and found myself marveling at these words, written so long ago. Below is an intriguing excerpt, could it perhaps be the recipe used by the potters to create our beautiful beaker?? </span><br />
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If for every ten [</span><i style="color: #666666; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">or</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">: two] parts of glaze frit they add 1 part of</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"> </span><i style="color: #666666; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">maghnisiya</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">it comes out black as</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"> </span><i style="color: #666666; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">shabeh</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">, and if they add less it comes out a red the colour of an eggplant. If they want an opaque colour such as turquoise they add for every</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"> </span><i style="color: #666666; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">man </i><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">of ground tin ten</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"> </span><i style="color: #666666; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">dirhams</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">of ground roasted cooper [sic: copper?], and coat this on. If they want</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"> </span><i style="color: #666666; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">lajvard </i><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">colour they add [to the glaze frit] ten</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"> </span><i style="color: #666666; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">dirhams</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">of</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"> </span><i style="color: #666666; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Sulaimani lajvard </i><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">and daub and coat the vessels with that. If they want a greyer tone they put in less</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"> </span><i style="color: #666666; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">lajvard </i><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">and add a small amount of red</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"> </span><i style="color: #666666; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">sirinj</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">. If they use an absolutely plain colour the vessels come out of the heat white."</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; text-align: center;">After a hectic holiday season, spring brings a host of new projects and the bindery is buzzing with activity. Along with a new range of desk pads, desk organizers and and gift boxes, we've created two new game sets: a bridge set, shown above, and a playing card set, below. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">While playing card game sets may seem to be a bit of a non sequitur for a bindery specializing in desk accessories, the design and development process has been quite familiar for us. We had several requests for bridge sets before the holidays, but only now have had the time to design all of the necessary elements. As it turns out, the skills we've until now put toward the production of our archival boxes and desk organizers have come in handy in designing these intricate boxes. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Refillable <a href="http://www.parvumopus.com/game-sets.html" target="_blank">bridge scoring tablets</a>, made by hand and available <br />'a la carte' as a set of four. Making these is like making </span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><br /></span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">It was a wonderful collaboration with our clients as we elevated every detail of our bridge and card sets-- as my personal experience with cards is limited (!), their guidance was invaluable. Parvum Opus game sets are made to order in an array of beautiful papers from around the world. We hope that they make bridge and poker night even more enjoyable for our clients, just as our desk accessories make their work spaces more enjoyable. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><br /></span>Parvum Opushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15464815622667738686noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5146709882273582485.post-27893988608041143202014-03-11T17:42:00.003-04:002014-03-11T17:42:33.556-04:00A Beautiful Tartanware Book: Sir Walter Scott's Lady of the Lake<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="line-height: 24px;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: 16px;">As you can see, it features a tooled and gilded leather spine, and </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">papier-mâché </span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: 16px;">Tartanware covers. Throughout the pages, small photographs are pasted in, with lovely views of Scottish lochs and castles.</span></span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;"> When I first received this wonderful gift (thank you dear husband!), I was especially charmed by tiny mother of pearl bun feet on the back of the book. What a jewel! Given that this book's publication made Scotland's Trossachs an enduring tourist destination, it makes perfect sense that a Tartanware edition would appear.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">It's such a tiny thing, only about 1.5" wide and 3" tall, but the romance of it looms large in my imagination. Consider it's interesting origins: it was made generations ago, </span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">by a craftsperson</span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"> most likely from Birmingham, England. Perhaps a second artist in the same workshop painted the tiny portrait onto this perfectly formed box made from nothing but paper pulp hardened with enamel. Perhaps it was a special commission for a local gentleman who would have carried it in his pocket, containing a day's worth of snuff. I can't imagine how many owners this box has known in its 150+ years, but I'm thrilled to be the most recent! </span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Taking snuff is an odd habit, isn't it? I gather from my <a href="http://www.collectorsweekly.com/tobacciana/snuff-boxes" target="_blank">reading</a> that the custom travelled from the new world to Europe with Christopher Columbus whose crew members witnessed it being used by the Taino in Haiti. Tobacco use, not surprisingly, spread quickly through Europe, and by the later 17th century, air-tight boxes made from precious materials were being crafted. There were larger examples for communal use at the table (still present in the House of Lords and US Senate), and more precious small pocket-sized versions for personal use. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Soft-paste porcelain with French silver-gilt mounts.</span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><br />Image courtesy of the <a href="http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O307002/snuff-box-giuseppe-gricci/" target="_blank">Victoria and Albert Museum Collections.</a></span></td></tr>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">If you take a moment to browse through the snuff boxes held in collections like that of the <a href="http://collections.vam.ac.uk/search/?listing_type=&offset=0&limit=15&narrow=&extrasearch=&q=snuff+box&commit=Search&quality=0&objectnamesearch=&placesearch=&after=&after-adbc=AD&before=&before-adbc=AD&namesearch=&materialsearch=&mnsearch=&locationsearch=" target="_blank">V & A Museum</a>, you can see from the variety and quantity that there must be something in human nature that is fascinated with tiny boxes. Snuff boxes were exchanged and presented as gifts long after the snuffing craze waned, and are voraciously collected today. I can imagine that the precious scale, multi-purpose box format and the object's inherent intimate nature inspired both the artisans and prospective collectors. The snuff itself, however, is definitely not my cup of tea!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Today I'd like to share a brilliant <a href="http://new.ted.com/talks/luke_syson_how_i_learned_to_stop_worrying_and_love_useless_art" target="_blank">TED</a> talk given by Luke Syson, the </span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I</span></span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">ris and B. Gerald Cantor Curator in Charge of the Department of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. </span></span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">He takes us along on a (hilarious) journey from repulsion, to familiarity, to acceptance, and finally to admiration of the </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 12.896000862121582px;">Sèvres</span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"> vase you see above. Most interesting to me was his thesis that in our Modernist culture, fancy or imagination has been sequestered into our screen lives while everyday objects have become more and more unremarkable, leaving little space for "useless" objects in modern life. </span></div>
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<br />Parvum Opushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15464815622667738686noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5146709882273582485.post-89258499503347097882014-01-18T21:34:00.000-05:002014-01-18T21:34:35.297-05:00Happy New Year!<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Warm New Year wishes from Parvum Opus! It's been much too long since I've treated myself to the pleasant task of posting here to share the latest news from the bindery. It's been a cheerfully chaotic couple of months at Parvum Opus, with new projects, new tools, new bindery assistants, and a new online shop.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><br /></span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">At this moment, our bindery's book presses are full of more projects that I will be happy to share very soon. I'm very grateful to have had the privilege of working on interesting projects with so many charming and creative people from all over North America and the UK last year, and we're looking forward to continuing our fulfilling work this year. </span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">I hope that 2014 brings health, friendship and joy for all of you. </span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"> </span><br />
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Hello! Well, it's been a few weeks since my last post, and I have exciting news
to report. The bindery is humming with interesting work, and our 2014 desk
calendars are flying off to their new homes even faster than last year's. Amid
all this, we decided it was high time to update our website for our wonderful
clientele. And so, with great effort from our talented designer,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.parvumopus.com/" target="_blank">Parvum Opus</a>, has been completely redesigned. It's had great reviews so far-- we invite you to take a peek and let us know what
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also had the great pleasure of making a wonderful new long-distance friend, Mr. <a href="http://www.abclloyd.co.uk/index.php/welcome" target="_blank">Alan Lloyd</a>, who, for the
last 25+ years, has owned and operated this gem of a shop in Kendal, England.
It's the sort of shop that I adore: tiny and characterful, and
absolutely bursting at the seams with gorgeous pens, inkwells, inkstands, pen wipes
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shop features
beautiful new pens, limited edition pens and vintage pens along with their
appropriate inks and accessories. It also houses a fantastic collection of
antique inkwells, pens and pen wipes that Alan has acquired over the years.
These are incredibly rare and almost impossible to find now, so it’s wonderful
to be able to see these pieces up close and hear about their histories from the
erudite Alan.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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and pen wipes, often from the nineteenth century, evoke romantic musings about
their original owners. In a time when most people could neither read nor write,
we can only wonder along with Alan, whose desks they adorned, and what sorts of
letters came from those desks.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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shared a story that resonated with me: he said that as a 10-year old boy, he
was in the habit of carrying 3 pens in his jacket pocket. Of course, most young
boys have no real use for 3 pens—it was obviously just something about them
that he enjoyed. I think anyone who counts him/herself among the family of
collectors can recall a similar early passion for objects… For me, it was
books, pens and Japanese paper- no surprises there...</span></span><o:p></o:p></div>
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dear husband travels to Kendal frequently on business, and had the privilege and pleasure of
both discovering Alan's shop and meeting Alan in person. He took all of the pictures you see here on his last visit. I look forward to joining
him on one of his trips to Kendal soon: I’m sure I’ll find </span><i style="color: #666666; font-family: 'Courier New';">some</i><span style="color: #666666; font-family: 'Courier New';"> way to occupy
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Parvum Opushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15464815622667738686noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5146709882273582485.post-83218640117982309822013-09-18T09:09:00.000-04:002013-09-18T09:09:36.843-04:00An Antique Tortoiseshell Tea Caddy<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Where have the weeks gone?! I must beg your forgiveness once again for the long delay in posting here-- we have been wonderfully busy here at the bindery, and have hardly been able to keep up with all of the wonderful bespoke projects that have come our way! I send warm greetings to all of our wonderful clientele and blogging friends-- it's so nice to be back.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Today, I thought I'd continue using our calendar motifs as a point of departure and share this painting of a beautiful octagonal green tortoiseshell tea caddy. This is an object whose materials and fine craftsmanship define it as particularly of its time and place. It's English, dating from the late 18th century when tea was an expensive and highly prized commodity in Europe. In England especially, the18th and 19th centuries saw the confluence of a mature craft tradition, new availability of exotic materials from around the world, and a growing consumer culture ready to collect the exquisite objects being produced. It was a perfect combination of artists, materials and audience that inspired what I consider to be some of the most beautiful objects in decorative arts history. </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A George III Tea Caddy, courtesy </span><a href="http://nickbrockantiques.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Nick Brock Antiques.</span></a></td></tr>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In my research, I came across an illuminating article from </span><a href="http://www.mallettantiques.com/public/research-tortoiseshell.aspx" target="_blank"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mallett Antiques in New York</span></a><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> on the history of the use of tortoiseshell as a material in the decorative arts. Interestingly, the article includes some fascinating information about the material itself: </span><br />
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: Calluna; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"[The Hawksbill tortoise's] shell is an interesting material because it is a living substance,
made of keratin. It is an insoluble protein composed of 55% carbon, 20% oxygen,
16% nitrogen, 6% hydrogen, and 2% sulphur. The shell thickens with age of the
turtle, and can get to 8 mm for the Hawksbill turtle. Its density is of 1.29
and its hardness on Mohs scale is 2.5. The reason why it is the Hawksbill
turtle that was mainly used in France in the 17th and 18th centuries is because
of its very thick shell and rich colours."</span></span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A green tortoiseshell tea caddy similar to the one I painted, with a beautiful pink velvet lining</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Moreover, another very interesting property for furniture makers is the discovery that the shell has the characteristic of being able to auto-graft itself. The discovery in the 19th century of the possibility of auto-grafting enabled a higher volume of work, and considerably extended the applications. Turtle-shell could be welded, turned, sculpted, shaped and this enabled craftsmen to create work of lace-like dexterity." In fact, when heated, the tortoiseshell will expand and "fuse" itself to a delicate silver inlay as in the box below.</span></span></div>
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</span><span style="color: #584503; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #666666;">A good example of how the "auto-grafting" tortoiseshell could be used in combination with silver:</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #584503; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #666666;">a small round silver and tortoiseshell trinket box, the top with
silver appliqué work, </span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #584503; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #666666;">by William Comyns & Sons, London, ca. 1909. Image courtesy <a href="http://findantiquetortoiseshell.co.uk/product/4997/SILVER%20AND%20TORTOISESHELL%20TRINKET%20BOX" target="_blank">Richard Gardner Antiques</a>.</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">
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Continuing from the Mallett article: "The green turtle tortoiseshell (chelonia mydas), is much thinner and little coloured for the adult turtle, offers less interests and has much more difficulty to auto graft itself. Though the preferred choice was to work with hawksbill tortoises, the 19th century under Napoleon III’s reign, saw a massive use of green turtle tortoiseshell to make veneer, mainly because of its low price and easy supply compared to hawksbill."</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #666666;">A rare red tortoiseshell, ivory and silver tea caddy, ca. 1790.</span><br />
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Of course, the amazing properties of tortoiseshell as a material were nearly disastrous for the beautiful tortoises, and, as much as I admire the beauty and craftsmanship of these tea caddies and boxes, I'm happy that the age of tortoiseshell as a craft material is in the past. After all, no man-made object can compete with the beauty of nature.</div>
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began as a simple bit of research into the history of a small 18<sup>th</sup>
century French sugar basin has instead led me to an entertaining discovery. It
would have been enough to talk about the venerable history of the Sèvres
Porcelain Manufactory, and of the exquisite bird paintings of </span></span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16px;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Étienne</span></span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"> Evans. In
this particular case, however, provenance wins out, because this little sugar
basin was purchased by none other than Horace Walpole on a trip to Paris in
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the </span><a href="http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O77506/pot-a-sucre-hebert-sugar-basin-evans-etienne/" style="background-color: white; line-height: 12pt; text-align: justify;" target="_blank">Victoria and Albert Museum</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; line-height: 12pt; text-align: justify;">, where this piece lives now, we learn that “</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; line-height: 12pt; text-align: justify;">This sugar bowl and its companion jug are from a tea
service with a matching tray. Such sets are known as 'cabarets' in Britain,
where they were usually for one or two people, and as déjeuners in France,
where they were sometimes equipped with four cups. Eighteenth-century accounts
of tea drinking in France indicate that the tea was made very strong in a small
pot, and then diluted with hot water before being drunk. Tea was drunk with hot
or cold milk and sweetened with white sugar. It is unlikely, however, that
these pieces were ever used by Horace Walpole, their first owner, for anything
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was born on 24 September, 1717. He was the son of Prime Minister Sir Robert
Walpole and a cousin of Admiral Lord Nelson. Although he was an art historian
and Whig politician, he is widely remembered for Strawberry Hill, his neo
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Gothic masterpieces including Westminster Abbey and Canterbury Cathedral, and
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fascinating for me are Walpole’s extensive collections, which filled and
defined the interior of Strawberry Hill. The interiors were said to be “settings
of Gothic ‘gloomth’ for Walpole’s collection.”</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 14.4pt;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 14.4pt;">(</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 14.4pt;">Calloway, Stephen, Snodin, Michael, and
Wainwright, Clive, </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 14.4pt;">Horace Walpole and Strawberry Hill</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 14.4pt;">, Orleans
House Gallery, Richmond upon Thames, 1980.) </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 14.4pt;">Gloomth</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 14.4pt;">—what a fantastically
descriptive term!</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 14.4pt;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 14.4pt;">Walpole’s collections of art,
antiquarian objects and curiosities were well known to his contemporaries and detailed
in his publication, </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 14.4pt;">A Description of the
Villa of Mr. Horace Walpole at Strawberry Hill.</i></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">According the the V&A: “On [his 1765 trip
to Paris] he spent more than £400 on porcelain and confessed that he bought
china faster than he could pay for it. Walpole purchased these pieces some
years after they were made, so he probably bought them from the stock of a
Paris dealer, rather than as new pieces from the [</span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sèvres] </span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 12pt;">factory.
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My
search into the history of this small sugar basin led me to a wonderful
discovery: <a href="http://images.library.yale.edu/strawberryhill/index.html" target="_blank">The Lewis Walpole Library of Yale University.</a> There, interested
parties can explore a database which includes not only details about Walpole’s
entire collection of art and objects, but also detailed descriptions and images
of each room in Strawberry Hill. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 12pt;">From
the Library’s home page: “Dispersed since the famous house sale in 1842,
Walpole’s collection was one of the most significant in eighteenth-century Britain,
numbering several thousand items. This database encompasses the entire range of
art and artifacts from Walpole’s collections, including all items whose
location is currently known and those as yet untraced but known through a
variety of historical records.” How wonderful that this project has been
undertaken—it’s a truly impressive archive, and one I’m sure you’ll enjoy. Equally
wonderful has been the circuitous path that led me from a French sugar bowl, to
the biography of Walpole, to a splendid treasure trove of art and antiquarian
objects.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Congratulations Gina!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Your name was drawn out of the hat, and so it will be my great pleasure to make a bespoke folio for you. What fun-- I'm looking forward to it!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Thank you all for participating in our little birthday drawing. I'm looking forward to another year of engaging conversations.</span><br />
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