A notepad from artist John Derian, published by Artisan in New York. The cover is illustrated with roses from Derian's nineteenth-century botanical archive — deep pink against ivory, the kind of bloom that lasts.

Eighty unlined pages, glue-bound at the top, sized for the kitchen counter or the bedside table. The cover is heavy stock, the inside is plain ivory paper — the right blank for a list, a note, a recipe.

For the friend who keeps a grocery list on actual paper. The host who writes the place cards by hand. The desk gift that gets used until the last page.

Glue-bound notepad. Published by Artisan Books in the United States.