Paperblanks Hartley & Marks

A lined journal, in an ingeniously printed faux leather cover which captures the flavour of finely wrought Renaissance-style leather bindings. It is intricately embellished with one of three designs to reproduce the delicate gold tooling which was brought to Europe via the flourishing trade routes with the east.

Our Kikka 2020 12-Month Diary reproduces Michiko Kamee’s “full of chrysanthemum” design originally hand-painted with gold overglaze and colour on china by employing Kyo-Satsuma. In this Paperblanks book cover design the viewer can see hints of the kaleidoscope of flowers in bloom, as well as fine boned artistry in every brush stroke and hue.

The design reproduced on this Paperblanks Poetry in Bloom soft cover 2020 12-Month Flexi Diary, originally crafted by Riviere and Son, centres around a sensitive plant surrounded by other richly hued flowers, foliage and butterflies. The binding was used for The Sensitive Plant and Early Poems by Percy Bysshe Shelley and is a celebration of the creative spirit.

Taking their cues from previous artistic movements, the New Romantics of the 1980s brought their hairstyles and attitudes to new prominence. This journal celebrates the drama that made the New Romantic movement some of the most ironic good times popular culture has ever had.

Franz Schubert was born in Austria to a musical family who imbued him with a love of the lied – a 19th-century style of German art song. In 1831 his musical adaptation of Goethe’s Der Erlkönig, reproduced here, was staged in a celebrated performance. It remains one of the most popular lieder composed during this time.

The Safavid Dynasty is often considered to represent the Islamic Golden Age, with its artists and creative methods still celebrated today. This Safavid-style design incorporates the symmetry and filigree designs that are the hallmarks of this binding tradition.

Evocative of an age when the heavens were alive with more than satellites, this cover design is a romantic’s delight. Frederik de Wit’s spectacular map of the heavens was published in the late 17th century and depicts the hemispheres with representations of the constellations and signs of the Zodiac.

More sumptuous than even the finest arrangement, our Van Huysum design is based on a painting by Jan van Huysum (1682–1749). Van Huysum is perhaps the greatest master of that most revered subject in the Dutch artistic canon: the flower. A jolt of passion for the soul, this still life is anything but static.

Inspired by the New Romantics’ reclamation of bygone æsthetics, we have revived our Romantic Sensibility designs in bold new colours for the 21st century. This deep black journal celebrates the drama that made the New Romantic movement some of the most ironic good times popular culture has ever had.

We have captured some of the splendid daybreak palette of ancient Venice with this Paperblanks diary. Our Aureo design is inspired by a 1600s Italian cover for a book called The Treatise on Colours. Our 2020 12-Month Diary cover embraces the Renaissance value of cultural rebirth by representing an ancient binding with contemporary bookmaking techniques.

Capturing the flavour of finely wrought Renaissance-style leather bindings, Paperblanks Riviera 2020 12-Month Diary pays homage to the craft of delicate gold tooling, originally introduced to Europe via the flourishing trade routes to the East. The timeless beauty of an antique leather binding is brought into the present on the cover of this vibrant blue book.

Olena Skytsiuk is one of the foremost practitioners of Ukrainian Petrykivka painting, a technique in which brushes crafted from cat hairs are used to create a visual effect unlike any other. In each design, like that reproduced on this Dayspring 2020 12-Month Flexi Diary cover, thousands of small brush strokes combine to create miniature landscapes and floral scenes.

If flowers can be said to speak, it is surely through the voice of botanical illustrators. Our Blooming Wisteria 2020 12-Month Diary features an image first published in one of Sir Joseph Paxton’s famed botanical periodicals. His published collections were greatly prized for their remarkable hand colouring, as can be appreciated on the Paperblanks book cover.

Laurel Burch was a self-taught artist who sold handmade jewellery on the streets of SAN Francisco in the 1960S and continued to rely on her intuition and passion to create vibrant images of whimsy and allure with paint and paper. Brilliantly coloured and exquisitely embellished in blue and gold, one such creation is portrayed on Paperblanks Mediterranean cats 2020 12-month diary.

Claude Monet (1840–1926) painted more than 250 canvases inspired by the lily ponds at his Giverny home. This Paperblanks 2020 12-month diary cover sets an 1888 letter written by Monet to Berthe Morisot, a fellow Impressionist, against the backdrop of his painting Japanese footbridge, Giverny, 1895.

Only the artists of Persia’s Safavid Dynasty (1501–1722) could have produced the bookbinding masterwork that inspired this cover design. Said to have been commissioned by one of the art-minded Safavid princes of Shiraz, the design seen on Paperblanks Shiraz 2020 12-Month Dayplanner was initially crafted from embossed, gilded and handpainted black goatskin, and overlaid with delicate gold filigree.

Our Kikka 2020 12-Month Diary reproduces Michiko Kamee’s “full of chrysanthemum” design originally hand-painted with gold overglaze and colour on china by employing Kyo-Satsuma. In this Paperblanks book cover design the viewer can see hints of the kaleidoscope of flowers in bloom, as well as fine boned artistry in every brush stroke and hue.

Taking their slightly sullen cues From previous artistic movements, The new romantics of the 1980S brought their hairstyles and attitudes to new prominence. Our Paperblanks midnight rebel bold 2020 12-month diary celebrates the drama that made the new romantic movement some of the most ironic good times Popular culture has ever had.

Venice enchants the eye from first light to last gloaming. We have captured some of the splendid palette of the city with this Paperblanks 2020 12-Month Diary cover inspired by a 1600s Italian binding. Our Celeste design embraces the Renaissance value of cultural rebirth by representing an ancient book binding with contemporary bookmaking techniques.