Next week marks the start of the Lunar New Year, the Year of the Horse in the Chinese zodiac. In celebration, we’ve assembled a veritable stable of horse-themed decoupage plates, paperweights, coasters, and trays. There’s more horsepower in our selection of 19th-century Austrian and French toy horses on wheels, as well as pastel depictions of horses from the early 20th century by Dutch artist Evert Rabbers. Hop in the saddle here.
Sweet hearts: 19th-century ex-voto hearts from Italy, crafted in silver-plated tin and marked with the gilded “GR” monogram for Grazia Ricevuta (“Grace Received”), were traditionally offered in churches as tangible expressions of gratitude for answered prayers. Keys to your heart: before mass production in the 18th and early 19th centuries, keys were hand-forged to fit a single lock, making each one-of-a-kind object a special offering.
All decoupage orders must be placed by Friday, January 30th.
Think outside the box of chocolates and discover unique ways to say I love you with our Valentine’s Day decoupage collection. Flowers, hearts, and precious gems are among the romantic images from John’s archive, handcrafted under glass in our New York studio. Place your order and let cupid do the rest.
Flowers last forever in John’s decoupage designs under glass. His archive of antique floral imagery blooms on plates, trays, coasters, cake pedestals, and more. Everything, from a single sunflower to a potted geranium, is crafted by artisans in our New York studio. Enter the garden here.
This season, our cupboards are stacked with ceramics. Explore our cabinet of ceramic curiosities...
Este Ceramiche Porcellane, established in the 1850s in Este, Italy, has a new collection of “Trompe l’Oeil” plates featuring wholly incredible, nearly edible, three-dimensional foods, fruits, and vegetables.
In the drawer this month: Heart in Hand The image comes from a larger “Friendship, Love, and Truth” print from John's archives by Currier and Ives, published in 1874.
Be Mine? Send a valentine or two with John's collection of folded cards, postcards, and tags or create your own masterpiece with our selection of watercolor sets from Chooising Keeping.
This year marks the 30th anniversary of John’s first shop in New York. A few years after starting his one-man decoupage design business in Boston, he moved to New York in the early 1990s. As orders increased, he hired a team of artisans to craft his motifs and opened his first shop in 1995 on 2nd Street in the East Village... a quiet block that would soon become his creative hub.
