Our new Still Life Burst cover is based on a painting by Jan van Huysum (1682–1749) that seems to burst off the canvas. A seduction of the eye and a jolt of passion for the soul, Van Huysum’s “still life”...
NEW: River Cascade Alluvium and Blue Rhine Journals Our new River Cascade journals are based on a binding originally produced in Basel, Switzerland by the celebrated publishing brothers Johann Rudolph and Emanuel Thurneysen. Published in 1729, the book was named Tossani’s...
Our new Turquoise Chronicles design is inspired by an elaborately decorated book cover crafted during a key point in the evolution of European bookbinding. The original design hails from the Salel Binder in Paris, who created it for a work titled...
You may find it surprising to learn that in all our years of creating journal covers based on world art, we’ve never featured the art of Gustav Klimt (1862–1918). Perhaps it was because his work is just so iconic that we...
You’d be hard pressed to name another family that has enriched the Western literary canon in the way that the Brontë sisters have. They wrote novels whose profoundness, subversive characters and fierce emotions stirred the rigid society of Victorian England...
The original leather binding reproduced for our Jewel of Urbino series was made around the turn of the 19th century in the city of Urbino, the picturesque capital of the Marche region of Italy. It contained a religious treatise translated from...
Romantic Sensibility is one of our classic Paperblanks series, and it had been available in our collection for many years before being recently discontinued. With subtle embellishments and a peaceful colour scheme, this series took inspiration from the book for...
Our new Poetry in Bloom design reproduces the binding of The Sensitive Plant and Early Poems, a collection of poems by Percy Bysshe Shelley. Written in the wake of his child’s death, Shelley’s title poem describes a flower garden going...
Thank you to all the voters! Because of you we are pleased to announce that Mirror Vine has been declared the winner of our 25th Anniversary Re-Release Bracket Challenge! What Comes Next? Our designers are already working hard at bringing this retired...
After nearly two weeks of voting we are down to our final two designs! Thanks to everyone who has cast a vote so far, but your favourite design isn’t safe yet. Make sure that your top pick is the one selected...