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John Derian Picture Book II

$80.00

By John Derian

It all began with a chance discovery of a brightly colored print hidden inside a box of antique books. A discovery that unleashed an obsessive curiosity about the origin of such printed matter and became a lifelong passion for collecting eighteenth- and nineteenth-century lithographs, drawings, and beautiful ephemera. Images that, rescued from anonymity through the magic of curation, now speak to us anew.

John Derian Picture Book II, following his bestselling John Derian Picture Book, continues the passion inspired by Derian's discoveries with a rich collection of more than 300 images that are beloved by his collectors and clients. Maps of the heavens. Antique signed bookplates. A pair of portraits of Saint Nick. Anatomy charts. "Jovs and Sorrows in the Life of a Hare." And so many flowers and birds. Page after page, image after jewellike image, it's a book to savor, celebrate, decipher, and return to again and again.

Retail Price: $80
Details: Hardcover, 368 pages, 14” x 11”
Publisher: Artisan Books

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By John Derian

It all began with a chance discovery of a brightly colored print hidden inside a box of antique books. A discovery that unleashed an obsessive curiosity about the origin of such printed matter and became a lifelong passion for collecting eighteenth- and nineteenth-century lithographs, drawings, and beautiful ephemera. Images that, rescued from anonymity through the magic of curation, now speak to us anew.

John Derian Picture Book II, following his bestselling John Derian Picture Book, continues the passion inspired by Derian's discoveries with a rich collection of more than 300 images that are beloved by his collectors and clients. Maps of the heavens. Antique signed bookplates. A pair of portraits of Saint Nick. Anatomy charts. "Jovs and Sorrows in the Life of a Hare." And so many flowers and birds. Page after page, image after jewellike image, it's a book to savor, celebrate, decipher, and return to again and again.

Retail Price: $80
Details: Hardcover, 368 pages, 14” x 11”
Publisher: Artisan Books

Purchase

  • John Derian is the author of the New York Times bestseller John Derian Picture Book and the creator of John Derian Paper Goods. He founded John Derian Company Inc. in 1989, and today employs a staff of artisans in his studio in New York City to create his signature decoupage plates, trays, paperweights, coasters, lamps, vases, and more. His designs are available in his own retail shops in New York's East Village—where he also carries vintage and antique imports, bed and table linens, stationery, vintage and new lighting, collaborative work with the French ceramic manufacturer Astier de Villatte and textiles with the London-based Designers Guild, and an ever-changing assortment of one-of-a-kind handmade curios as well as in upscale home boutiques, catalogs, and gift shops around the globe. His work, along with his retail shops, studio, and homes, has been featured in Vogue, T: The New York Times Style Magazine, Architectural Digest, Vanity Fair, World of Interiors, WSJ. Magazine, Elle Decor, House & Garden, Bon Appétit, Garden Design, New York magazine, GQ, and W.