Beautifully presented with hardback covers and deckled-edge pages, the Handwritten Notes series is a delightful keepsake, and will make a unique and heartfelt gift for the ones you love.

William Morris (English, 18341896), a principal founder of the Arts and Crafts movement, was also a writer of poetry and fiction, a founder of Englands socialist movement, and a designer of typefaces, fabrics, and wallpaper. Morriss genius shone especially brightly, however, in the design of complex, balanced, intricately repetitive print patterns. The twelve sumptuous floral and foliate wallpa...(view full description)

Using simple geometric shapes and vivid colors, Charley Harper captured the essence of each creature he painted. Harper developed his minimal realist style while a student at the Art Academy of Cincinnati and the Art Students League in New York City. Here are twelve of Harpers paintingsamong them Loonrise, Puffins Passing, Quailsafe, and Skimmerscapeto brighten each month of your year.

She is absorbed, content, perhaps quietly thrilled. She might be seizing a precious moment to take comfort in a book, or she might be searching its pages for a means to transform her life. A book can create a whole world in which to lose oneself, and these paintings accomplish the same effect. Just as the reading woman is lost in a story and separated from her lifes narrative, so can the viewer...(view full description)