Just one more reason to love your opposable thumbs

Hitchhiking, thumbwars, the ability to hold a metallic gel pen – all reasons to adore our opposable thumbs. And if that weren’t enough, now PH offers The Small Object’s Thumbprint Notecard Set!

With this mini stationery kit, it’s okay to be all thumbs! Just add your thumb to the ink pad, stickers, and step-by-step instructions provided and turn these notecards into one-of-a-kind works of art with a host of charming thumbprint characters giving life to the scenes on each card. This sweet little set is ideal for all kinds of correspondence, from children’s birthdays to grown-up greetings.

Sarah Neuburger, the artist behind The Small Object, has built a devoted following online and across the globe with her hilariously inventive art and handmade gift objects.

Hearts A-Flutter

We’ve been getting in the V-Day spirit, constructing these origami lovebirds with the aid of our Origami Craft Pad and beautiful white and fuchsia Waste-Not recycled paper. Join the paper party at the shop!

Featured: Daily Candy

PH’s favorite candles, Linnea’s Lights, are featured in a 19 Gifts for Your Valentine guide on Daily Candy!

Special thanks to Linnea’s Lights for suggesting us as the go-to online shop to purchase the candles. Log onto phdesignshop-store.com/ or visit the shop to light up your own!

Feliz Valentines Day

This just in – PH is now carrying cards by La Familia Green! Husband and wife team Andrew Miners and Mollie Green describe their aesthetic as Mexican folk art meets Scandinavian design meets wildlife preserve.

All paper goods are either graciously Gocco printed or crafted from hand- cut and collaged paper. Best of all? Offerings from La Familia Green are produced in small quantities by hand. This ensures that you will send a card or give a gift that is unique—each piece a little work of art.

Mollie beautifully describes the magic of greeting cards:
I love the immediacy and intimacy of cards. You buy a card, write a note and send it out into the world.

Cabinets of Curiosities

PH has embraced the Wunderkammer, or cabinet of curiosities – encyclopedic collections of types of objects that derive from the culture of Renaissance Europe. Modern terminology would categorize the objects included as belonging to natural history, geology, ethnography, archaeology, historical relics, works of art and antiquities. The Wunderkammer was regarded as a microcosm or theater of the world, and a memory theater, conveying symbolically the patron’s control of the world through its indoor, microscopic reproduction.

Designers Amanda, Chris and Emily scored our area’s thrift stores to produce our own Cabinets of Curiosities. Among the finds:

Another find: a birdcage-esque armoire

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In displaying the items, we also took inspiration from Joseph Cornell’s 1960s boxed assemblages. Take a peak inside this refurb stack of cubbies:


Wunderbar!