John’s love for the seaside takes shape in his ship-themed decoupage designs. Sailboats, clipper ships, and steamers are among the many seafaring vessels in his collection of 18th and 19th-century imagery, all reimagined under glass by artisans in our NYC studio. Drop anchor here and explore.
This Father’s Day, we present a variety of gifts as diverse as dads themselves: the animal lover or green-thumbed dads, for the bar, for the desk and more.
Father’s Day is June 21st. Add a touch of whimsy to offices, studies, and man caves everywhere with our decoupage pieces for all kinds of dads.
Hello Gorgeous: We’re excited to introduce a new collection of beaded and embroidered treasures from Trovelore. Explore their freestanding designs online featuring fish, butterflies, moths, flowers, hearts, and more.
John has carved a niche in antique woodwork and stocked the shop with unique creations from around the world. Early 20th-century tramp art, carved from layered scraps of wood, meticulously notched and stacked into geometric, chip-carved patterns, includes boxes, frames, mirrors, tables, storage, and even a bird cage. These pieces reflect the tramp art movement’s resourcefulness and quiet devotion to ornament, transforming humble materials into personal objects.
Enjoy the scenery: Our collection of landscape, seascape, and still life paintings is ready to explore. Among the selection are early 20th-century Dutch pastoral landscapes by Evert Rabbers and Alphonse Baril’s mid-19th-century detailed watercolors of the French countryside. Bouquets abound in still-life paintings from Holland and in oils and linocut prints by Hugo Guinness. Take the scenic route here.
John made his own deck of cards based on a set of French transformation cards called Jeanne Hachette, circa 1870, by Grimaud.
Dreaming in Color: Here’s a sneak peek at the John Derian Colouring Book: Flowers. Available for pre-order where books are sold. Available on our site, and in our shops on June 30th, 2026.
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.
