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We found a spot in the sun during this streak of chilly weather at PH’s happy hour last night at Cafe Adobe.

See how designers and paper peeps chill out in our latest Facebook album!

Hey guys! This is Zoë and it’s my first day at PH. I’ve spent the day going through the store and learning about everything we have and here is one of my favorite things so far:

This pictorial Webster’s dictionary is the quintessential coffee table book. All of the pictures contain intricate details, and are sure to intrigue guests while they’re waiting for their cocktails.

We’ve got all of our noses in books at PH Design Shop! And we’ve got you covered too, with our fresh shipment of Book City Jackets.

Book City Jackets are updated versions of the classic paper bag book cover. The company, founded in 2008 by Emma Gaines-Ross and Jeremy Schwartz in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, turns books into a new kind of affordable art that can be displayed on bookshelves and coffee tables, in cafes and classrooms, on planes and trains . . . anywhere people bring their books. The covers are off-set printed on recycled kraft paper in downtown New York and “fold-to-fit” almost any book. A Book City Jacket isn’t just beautiful — it also protects from spilled drinks and prying eyes and provides a convenient space to doodle and jot down notes.

What’s more, a few covered books make a striking uniform design element amidst the rainbow of colors on your bookshelf:

Book covers were a good idea in junior high school and they’re a good idea now.

Our custom CAMP and K.I.T. stationery has been featured on the blog, Simple Blueprint!

The blog is written by a Swedish-American art director and stylist. She describes herself as “obsessed with paper, passionate about type, crazy about magazines, in love with photography, foolishly infatuated with good design + fashion and i have a thing for hotels + travel.” So, receiving a mentioning from this tastemaker is all the more flattering!

Our favorite little kraft-colored notebooks, Field Notes, have been spotted in the March issue of Vanity Fair!

The magazine includes a piece about one of our heroes, filmmaker John Hughes. You’ve got to give the director of Sixteen Candles, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, The Breakfast Club and Home Alone credit. Accompanying the article is a photograph of part of his extensive collection of notebooks…and just inches from the original handwritten script of The Breakfast Club (A Mead spiral notebook labeled “Detention”) sits a familiar-looking kraft-paper-covered memo book. Make like John Hughes and record some brilliance in a Field Notes booklet from PH!