"Love: King and Queen of Hearts" postage stamps designed by Derry Noyes and Jeanne Greco and released to the American public on 9 May 2009. The motifs are inspired by 18th-century French playing cards.
I was reading an advance copy of Susan Bartlett Crater and Libby Cameron's forthcoming and highly effervescent book Sister Parish Design: On Decorating (St Martin's Press, November 2009) when I came across mention of an impromptu art presentation that made me want to get up and head to the nearest post office and thence to a framing shop.
The late Roger Banks-Pye, an exceptional interior designer who was the undisputed star of Sibyl Colefax and John Fowler in the 1990s, was an insanely inventive human being, whether it was creating stylish patchwork curtain out of blue-and-white-checked napkins or inventing some other flight of fancy that took your breath away. One of his inexpensive tricks for adding a colour-coordinated splash to a tabletop was to frame a sheet of brilliant postage stamps and set it on a small easel. What could be simpler?
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Aren't those gorgeous? I've been wondering who the designer is. Almost makes me want to pay my bills by mail again.
A friend of mine just sent me a package of vintage floral stamps from all over the world. They are each a tiny bit of art.
Why is there a line through 44?
Dear Anonymous, That is so the design cannot be printed out and used as an actual stamp.
How can I possibly live until October without that book???!!!! Sister Parish is my fave. I will lock myself in a closet until I finish it!
Thanks!
And Daisy Fellowes is beyond divine in that costume.
Did you see the Poe stamps when they came out? They were just terrific. I think that the UK has some lovely stamps, as well.
I hadn't seen the stamps, but I'm totally going to the post office today to get sheets and sheets of them! I'm going to put some of them with my Alice in Wonderland collection!
I stock up on stamps I love and when the price of stamps goes up, I mix and match (I don't use the turquoise necklace one, though). There's the one cent Tiffany lamp, the four cent Chippendale chair and the five cent toleware teapot.
In fact, when I mail a letter, I never use one stamp. I'll go buy some of these card stamps and I won't use them until postage goes up again (which, if history bears out, will be about 18 months from now).
I find multiple stamps to be far more appealing.
I have a good friend who has some WWII stamps framed. Marvelous.
I recommend finding a copy of Donald Evans collected works. He designed postage stamps for fictitious countries in miniature watercolors. Unfortunately, he died tragically at a very young age.
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