Boxed Notecards & Stationery
To write a note or a letter in three dimensions is to send a word across time and space and place it in someone's hand, real and tangible, a living artifact of your words and feelings. We have thank you notes and sympathy notes, "just notes" and blank notes, all boxed handsomely. Card companies are fast and sometimes mysterious in changing their designs, dropping old ones, introducing new ones, so check back often.
Degas Dancers Keepsake Boxed Note Cards
Degas Dancers Keepsake Boxed Note Cards
Even non-dancers can enjoy dramatic views of ballerinas on a gaslit stage in nineteenth century Paris. Galison's Degas Dancers keepsake box holds four cards each of four different images: the cover image, Green Dancer, is a pastel and gouache on paper, c. 1880, in the Museum Thyssen-Boremisza, Madrid. From the Musee d'Orsay, there are End of an Arabesque, an oil and pastel on canvas from 1877, and The Star, pastel on paper, c. 1876. The "en pointe" dancer from The Rehearsal is a pstel and oil from a private collection. A sturdy decorative box holds cards and envelopes neatly, and when the cards have been sent, it's great for storing all sorts of little things--from extra buttons to pearls.