
John Derian is an artist and designer who curates and then transforms printed images from the past, and in doing so transports the viewer to another world. Today his signature decoupage plates, bowls, paperweights, and other designs are still produced entirely by hand and sold worldwide. John Derian Paper Goods is a line of stationery products that capture the ineffable appeal of Derian’s collectibles. Using images that appear on his most covetable objects, here are puzzles, notebooks, and notepads. Each of Derian’s pieces begins with a discovery—one-of-a-kind illustrations, etchings, chromolithographic prints, rare reproductions, and other printed matter from eighteenth- and nineteenth-century books—and ends in a moment of dreamlike recognition.