Please stop by our exhibit and pop up shop this week at P! Gallery, 344 Broome Street.
Extended show dates : November 21-23. Open from 12 - 6pm
An eclectic selection of stampers, desk accessories and objects will be on hand for sale, and the original collections that inspired will be shown.
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JP Williams collects. An incomplete list of his collections includes: 19th-century glass: artist palettes; balls of twine; baseball cards; Herbert Bayer; books on books; bookseller labels; Irma Boom; Will Burtin; calling cards; collections of collections; companies; crosswriting; Wim Crouwel; Danish wooden monkeys; drafting triangles; ebony rolling rulers; fancy cancels; first editions; folk art; Joost Grootens; Hermes boxes; hickory walking sticks; IBM ephemera; industrial wooden stamps; ivory billiard balls; Japanese brush pots; Richard Paul Lohse; Alvin Lustig; Karel Martens; Modernist letterheads; Henrik Nygren; old handwriting; orbs; packaging; paint brushes; paper clips; paperweights; peculiar people; pencil sharpeners; playing cards; postal history covers; Paul Rand; scrapbooks of monograms; shorthand writing; staplers; Steiff animals; stencil brushes; Ladislav Sutnar; Jan Tschichold; wax seals; wedgwood basalt teapots; white rocks;and wooden door stops. A hybrid exhibition and Wms & Co. pop-up store, Perspectives, Signatures presents a selection of these collections as a cross-section of life and practice.
Photo of our living room shelves by Dana Gallagher , from the amazing book "Collected: Living with Things You Love" by Fritz Karch and Rebecca Robertson.