I was thinking that Roger Banks Pye and Ruth Bader Ginsberg...stay with me...how their initials were so similar....and then thinking about their unique contributions in their fields....and then, because I love to think about ways in which we are all alike, I realized that they actually had so much in common! Both worked for venerable institutions:Ruth the Supreme Court of the United States, and Roger for Colefax and Fowler: the oldest interior decorating firm in Great Britain. In their own way, both of them brought so much new beauty to the world. Ruth in her steady advocacy for civil rights, women's rights, and gender equality. And Roger in his steadfast refusal to see any material as too humble to be used in the hallowed halls of interior design. If he needed a unique window treatment, he frayed the edges of napkins and sewed them together to make a curtain. If he needed a unique floor covering, he painted a piece of canvas and put it on the floor. If he needed a plant /flowers in a room, he just brought in a rose bush, with its attendant messiness of dropped leaves and lively charm. Both RBG and RBP were about making people's lives better, more human, more comfortable.

• Paper thickness: 10.3 mil
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• ISO brightness: 104%
• Paper is sourced from Japan

I was thinking that Roger Banks Pye and Ruth Bader Ginsberg...stay with me...how their initials were so similar....and then thinking about their unique contributions in their fields....and then, because I love to think about ways in which we are all alike, I realized that they actually had so much in common! Both worked for venerable institutions:Ruth the Supreme Court of the United States, and Roger for Colefax and Fowler: the oldest interior decorating firm in Great Britain. In their own way, both of them brought so much new beauty to the world. Ruth in her steady advocacy for civil rights, women's rights, and gender equality. And Roger in his steadfast refusal to see any material as too humble to be used in the hallowed halls of interior design. If he needed a unique window treatment, he frayed the edges of napkins and sewed them together to make a curtain. If he needed a unique floor covering, he painted a piece of canvas and put it on the floor. If he needed a plant /flowers in a room, he just brought in a rose bush, with its attendant messiness of dropped leaves and lively charm. Both RBG and RBP were about making people's lives better, more human, more comfortable.

• Ayous wood .75″ (1.9 cm) thick frame from renewable forests
• Paper thickness: 10.3 mil (0.26 mm)
• Paper weight: 189 g/m²
• Lightweight
• Acrylite front protector
• Hanging hardware included
• Blank product components in the US sourced from Japan and the US
• Blank product components in the EU sourced from Japan and Latvia

Why do I love Roger Banks Pye besides his quirky use of materials...probably because I am very attracted to his pattern on patternon pattern., the fact that he is NOT a minimalist, and his steadfast belief that everything CAN work together. Yes I know that he probably ruthlessly curated and was thoughtful, but I can't help thinking that he was perhaps saying something about life and people...let's all be together...a glorious jumble of lively humanity...nothing, and no one, not belonging. That's why I mentioned Mally Skok, Rose Cumming, and Donatella: three designers who are all about inclusion and having all the disparate elements get along!

• Paper thickness: 10.3 mil
• Paper weight: 189 g/m²
• Opacity: 94%
• ISO brightness: 104%
• Paper is sourced from Japan

Why do I love Roger Banks Pye besides his quirky use of materials...probably because I am very attracted to his pattern on patternon pattern., the fact that he is NOT a minimalist, and his steadfast belief that everything CAN work together. Yes I know that he probably ruthlessly curated and was thoughtful, but I can't help thinking that he was perhaps saying something about life and people...let's all be together...a glorious jumble of lively humanity...nothing, and no one, not belonging. That's why I mentioned Mally Skok, Rose Cumming, and Donatella: three designers who are all about inclusion and having all the disparate elements get along!

• Ayous wood .75″ (1.9 cm) thick frame from renewable forests
• Paper thickness: 10.3 mil (0.26 mm)
• Paper weight: 189 g/m²
• Lightweight
• Acrylite front protector
• Hanging hardware included
• Blank product components in the US sourced from Japan and the US
• Blank product components in the EU sourced from Japan and Latvia

I judge a room, by how closesly it conforms to Eliza Doolittles song in My Fair Lady:

"All I want is a room somewhere, Far away from the cold night air, With One Enormous Chair..."

I mean adding a working fireplace is great, throwing in a Moroccan side table to hold a drink is also good...but does the room and the chair beckon me to sink, to settle, to be swaddled in it's coziness for an afternoon. Can I lose myself in a book or film there, because my creaturely needs are met...is this a good space FOR a human to inhabit? The opposite of this, is that space where it is amazing, it is impressive, but you can't actually imagine inserting yourself schlumpfy, imperfect self into the scene. Maybe, I feel most at home in places, and with things, that have a little wear and tear on them so that I, in my "velveteen rabbit" body can simply blend in.

• Paper thickness: 10.3 mil
• Paper weight: 189 g/m²
• Opacity: 94%
• ISO brightness: 104%
• Paper is sourced from Japan

I judge a room, by how closesly it conforms to Eliza Doolittles song in My Fair Lady:

"All I want is a room somewhere, Far away from the cold night air, With One Enormous Chair..."

I mean adding a working fireplace is great, throwing in a Moroccan side table to hold a drink is also good...but does the room and the chair beckon me to sink, to settle, to be swaddled in it's coziness for an afternoon. Can I lose myself in a book or film there, because my creaturely needs are met...is this a good space FOR a human to inhabit? The opposite of this, is that space where it is amazing, it is impressive, but you can't actually imagine inserting yourself schlumpfy, imperfect self into the scene. Maybe, I feel most at home in places, and with things, that have a little wear and tear on them so that I, in my "velveteen rabbit" body can simply blend in.

• Ayous wood .75″ (1.9 cm) thick frame from renewable forests
• Paper thickness: 10.3 mil (0.26 mm)
• Paper weight: 189 g/m²
• Lightweight
• Acrylite front protector
• Hanging hardware included
• Blank product components in the US sourced from Japan and the US
• Blank product components in the EU sourced from Japan and Latvia

I am listening to Ann Patchett's book of new essays these days, and in one she talks about her first Thanksgiving in college at Sarah Lawrence when she had to remain there, in an unheated building, and cook her first Thanksgiving dinner for herself and other strays. She says that the meal turned out just passable but that they were all INSANELY fortunate to be there, then, getting an amazing education...and that they were just "too cool to bow their heads to anyone or anything and give thanks...but NOW, she realizes how fortunate they all were. It seems equally apropos today, dealing with a world wide pandemic, that we not be too cool THIS holiday season to regularly stop, bow our heads and acknowledge how insanely fortunate many of us are: home, friends, family....health.

• Paper thickness: 10.3 mil
• Paper weight: 189 g/m²
• Opacity: 94%
• ISO brightness: 104%
• Paper is sourced from Japan

I am listening to Ann Patchett's book of new essays these days, and in one she talks about her first Thanksgiving in college at Sarah Lawrence when she had to remain there, in an unheated building, and cook her first Thanksgiving dinner for herself and other strays. She says that the meal turned out just passable but that they were all INSANELY fortunate to be there, then, getting an amazing education...and that they were just "too cool to bow their heads to anyone or anything and give thanks...but NOW, she realizes how fortunate they all were. It seems equally apropos today, dealing with a world wide pandemic, that we not be too cool THIS holiday season to regularly stop, bow our heads and acknowledge how insanely fortunate many of us are: home, friends, family....health.

• Ayous wood .75″ (1.9 cm) thick frame from renewable forests
• Paper thickness: 10.3 mil (0.26 mm)
• Paper weight: 189 g/m²
• Lightweight
• Acrylite front protector
• Hanging hardware included
• Blank product components in the US sourced from Japan and the US
• Blank product components in the EU sourced from Japan and Latvia

"Why I Paint Interiors" I have thought a lot about this question. I think that I am drawn to this subject matter because it is visible evidence of who people are. It is a collection of clues, a 'graphic novel', if you will, of a person's life. And as I get older, I have some time to think about what clues I want to leave behind and what my environs 'say' about me. And let's face it...being me, is to constantly feel torn between the love of empty, minimal spaces (the beautiful open desert that I live in) and my 'magpie spirit' that loves when she encounters a fellow 'magpie maximalist'!

• Paper thickness: 10.3 mil
• Paper weight: 189 g/m²
• Opacity: 94%
• ISO brightness: 104%
• Paper is sourced from Japan

"Why I Paint Interiors" I have thought a lot about this question. I think that I am drawn to this subject matter because it is visible evidence of who people are. It is a collection of clues, a 'graphic novel', if you will, of a person's life. And as I get older, I have some time to think about what clues I want to leave behind and what my environs 'say' about me. And let's face it...being me, is to constantly feel torn between the love of empty, minimal spaces (the beautiful open desert that I live in) and my 'magpie spirit' that loves when she encounters a fellow 'magpie maximalist'!

• Ayous wood .75″ (1.9 cm) thick frame from renewable forests
• Paper thickness: 10.3 mil (0.26 mm)
• Paper weight: 189 g/m²
• Lightweight
• Acrylite front protector
• Hanging hardware included
• Blank product components in the US sourced from Japan and the US
• Blank product components in the EU sourced from Japan and Latvia

Maybe early spring bloomers (sometimes when there is still snow on the ground) such as daffodils and forsythia are not given to us JUST to wake up our color-starved eyeballs, but the blazing yellows suggest and promise warmth...while we are yet enduring the end of winter. These sunny early spring bloomer are embodiments of Albert Camu's 'invincible summer'!

• Paper thickness: 10.3 mil
• Paper weight: 189 g/m²
• Opacity: 94%
• ISO brightness: 104%
• Paper is sourced from Japan

Maybe early spring bloomers (sometimes when there is still snow on the ground) such as daffodils and forsythia are not given to us JUST to wake up our color-starved eyeballs, but the blazing yellows suggest and promise warmth...while we are yet enduring the end of winter. These sunny early spring bloomer are embodiments of Albert Camu's 'invincible summer'!

• Ayous wood .75″ (1.9 cm) thick frame from renewable forests
• Paper thickness: 10.3 mil (0.26 mm)
• Paper weight: 189 g/m²
• Lightweight
• Acrylite front protector
• Hanging hardware included
• Blank product components in the US sourced from Japan and the US
• Blank product components in the EU sourced from Japan and Latvia