POSTCARD SET LARGE

CHF 39.00

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She keeps a window open, even in November, so the cold can sharpen the room awake. Below, a garden settling into autumn: crab apples ripening on the grass, a rosemary hedge grown generous and wild, the last dahlias holding their colour like a small triumph. She drinks her coffee from the same chipped cup, always, because ritual sharpens the mind more than any view.

The desk is scarred oak, inherited, and it remembers every manuscript that has crossed it. It still smells faintly of beeswax and old wood, a scent she's never quite matched to any polish she's tried. Ink blooms near the left corner where her pen rests when she pauses to watch the light shift. Today it's a novel, its final chapter finally finding its shape after weeks of circling. She writes by hand first, always, the nib catching on the tooth of the paper, before the words are trusted to a screen. Her fingers carry a faint blue smudge by noon, a mark of a good morning's work. Ink and coffee. The only two stains she doesn't mind.

She stops, pen lifted, and smiles: her sister's birthday, three days away, and she's ready this time. She reaches for the drawer where the postcards live, stacked by colour, waiting. Thinking of you today, and every day, she writes, and means both halves of the sentence. A stamp follows, pressed a little crooked, exactly as their mother used to do it.

A second card follows too, for her neighbour, who left a jar of quince jelly on the step last week without a word. The kitchen still smells faintly of it, sugared fruit and woodsmoke, when she sits back down to write. Thank you, she writes, simply, and means it entirely. This one needs no stamp, just a short walk next door and a gap under the gate.

Then, coat on, she carries her sister's card to the postbox herself, glad for the short errand, and for two people who'll smile when the post arrives...

PAY WITH TWINT

She keeps a window open, even in November, so the cold can sharpen the room awake. Below, a garden settling into autumn: crab apples ripening on the grass, a rosemary hedge grown generous and wild, the last dahlias holding their colour like a small triumph. She drinks her coffee from the same chipped cup, always, because ritual sharpens the mind more than any view.

The desk is scarred oak, inherited, and it remembers every manuscript that has crossed it. It still smells faintly of beeswax and old wood, a scent she's never quite matched to any polish she's tried. Ink blooms near the left corner where her pen rests when she pauses to watch the light shift. Today it's a novel, its final chapter finally finding its shape after weeks of circling. She writes by hand first, always, the nib catching on the tooth of the paper, before the words are trusted to a screen. Her fingers carry a faint blue smudge by noon, a mark of a good morning's work. Ink and coffee. The only two stains she doesn't mind.

She stops, pen lifted, and smiles: her sister's birthday, three days away, and she's ready this time. She reaches for the drawer where the postcards live, stacked by colour, waiting. Thinking of you today, and every day, she writes, and means both halves of the sentence. A stamp follows, pressed a little crooked, exactly as their mother used to do it.

A second card follows too, for her neighbour, who left a jar of quince jelly on the step last week without a word. The kitchen still smells faintly of it, sugared fruit and woodsmoke, when she sits back down to write. Thank you, she writes, simply, and means it entirely. This one needs no stamp, just a short walk next door and a gap under the gate.

Then, coat on, she carries her sister's card to the postbox herself, glad for the short errand, and for two people who'll smile when the post arrives...

DETAILS

SIZE

A6 10.5 x 14.8 cm


BACKSIDE

Blank for your message


Soft and uncoated, that welcomes ink and holds it well

PAPER


MADE IN

The UK


POSTCARD MIXED SET
CHF 20.00

Five postcards, endless possibilities. Send a spontaneous hello, a note of gratitude, or a small surprise — no occasion required. Each card adds a touch of charm and joy, whether mailed or tucked into a wrapped gift.

Select a single design to receive 5 identical cards, or enjoy variety with the Mixed Summer or Mixed Winter sets.

Details
– Set of 5 postcards
– A6 size
– Printed in full colour on premium paper, 400gsm
– Uncoated finish with a soft, tactile texture
– Blank on the reverse
– Made in the UK
– FSC® certified, recyclable, sustainably sourced, and chlorine-free

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COTTON-LYOCELL WRAP "THE WHITE STORKS"
CHF 150.00

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Inspired by the 17th-century Indian tempera painting The Attractions of Music, this design reimagines the artwork’s meditative harmony between nature, ornament, and human expression. The white storks, borrowed from the original composition, moving through a dreamlike landscape. The birds act as keepers of stories, drifting silently through ruins, gardens, and fragments of forgotten worlds. Around them, overturned vessels, architectural remnants, celestial diagrams, pearls, fruits, and faded ornamentation appear like relics carried across centuries traces of trade, ritual, celebration, and cultural exchange dissolved into dream.

Influenced by the decorative borders and layered symbolism characteristic of Indian court paintings, the piece blends antiquity with surrealism, creating a floating world where mythology, memory, and nature coexist in delicate equilibrium. A meditation on preservation, ornament, and the poetry of collected fragments.

Made from lyocell, the fabric wrap is exceptionally soft and gentle against the skin. Its generous size allows it to drape beautifully - worn as a wrap, a shawl, or loosely over the shoulders. The fringed edges finish it simply and naturally.

WRAPPING PAPER "SOMETHING ABOUT A GRID"
CHF 30.00

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In a drawer lined with faded velvet, in the basement of the natural history museum, someone once arranged the world by colour and weight. The compartments run in neat rows and columns, a grid built to hold what might otherwise scatter. Shells from the Mediterranean lie numbered, side by side. Three ceramic vessels from Athens, fourth century BC, provenance unknown, stand slightly apart from everything else, as though still waiting to be placed. A botanical drawing of Citrus aurantium, hand painted in ink and wash, Florence, 1743, its colours still true, lies flat beneath glass. Beside it, a dried citrus branch, the fruit still attached, brittle now as paper. Citrus peel, curled and hardened with age. A pressed sprig of bitter orange blossom, its petals gone the shade of old paper.

We built our own version of that drawer for "Something About a Grid," and filled it with sage and moss. A tangerine branch traces its own line across the paper. Shells curl into the corners. The grid holds them all in place, the way the drawer once did.

Long before this drawer was built, someone else kept a version of it on her desk. Maria Sibylla Merian, born in Frankfurt in 1647, learned to paint from her stepfather, a still life artist, and turned that eye toward something almost no one studied then: insects. Her studio held rows of glass jars, each one holding a caterpillar mid change, light falling across her worktable from a window she kept angled just so. Beside the jars, cuttings stood in shallow water, roots trailing pale threads beneath the surface, flowers open at every stage from bud to drop. She ground her own pigments. She mixed her own inks. And she returned to the same jar day after day, sketching each moult until the moth broke free, always beside the very plant that fed it.

Among the sketches she kept pinned above her desk, one image was said to return to her again and again, though it would not be painted for another century: a girl tying willow fronds into a bundle for Palm Sunday, headscarf burning orange against green. When Kanuty Rusiecki finally set that scene on canvas in 1844, titling it Lithuanian Girl with Palm Sunday Fronds, sage and moss and the deep shade of fern under low branches, he painted the same devotion Merian gave her insects and roots.

Maria pins the last sketch to the wall, closes the drawer of dried specimens, and turns down the lamp.