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Black Ink does a wonderful job of selling nothing in particular. Hello Kitty lunchboxes, rubber peanuts, squiggly sushi plates, banana-shaped doorstops and Korean composition books are among the...
Black Ink does a wonderful job of selling nothing in particular. Hello Kitty lunchboxes, rubber peanuts, squiggly sushi plates, banana-shaped doorstops and Korean composition books are among the...
If you haven't had the pleasure of eating the Black Sesame Pocky snack or using an eraser shaped like sushi or writing on a notepad decorated with some cutesy critter on acid, it's never...
If you go to Italy and can peel yourself away from the priceless art, the romantic settings, if you can get over the ridiculously good-looking people and the heavenly food, you may notice that...
If you've ever received the gift of jewelry, you know full well that good things come in small packages. A little box of pulpy jewels is how we like to think of de Medici Ming Fine Paper....
Doe is general store, San Francisco style. In what isn't the biggest space in the world they manage to squeeze in clothing for men, women and children, various home accessories, lotions and...
It's hard not to walk into Flax Art & Design and be inspired. Inspired to make a card, draw a picture, frame a photograph or pick up a paint brush. The family-owned art supply store sets...
Greenwich Letterpress combines the classic craft of letterpress with modern city sensibilities. While custom work is the bread and butter of the business, the spacious retail location is notable...
No matter how many "stationery" designs e-cards offer, they never, ever match the feel, the class and the style of paper. In Greer, we see pulp's full potential. The store has...
India Ink is a one-stop shop for the stationery obsessed. The company specializes in designing custom stationery, whether it be personal stationery, business identity work or invitations. However,...
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Upscale greeting card store, also featuring gifts, gift wrap and ribbons. During the Holidays, In the Bag offers gift wrapping services.
Jonathan Wright makes the wonders of letterpress available to casual passers by. The store carries on the letterpress tradition with its quaint, one-of-a-kind letterpress cards and stationery....
Following age-old Japanese techniques, Kozo Arts is all about the art of paper making and book binding. Their silkscreen prints are printed on handmade paper, each color individually screened to...
Lion in the Sun knows good paper. The full-service paperie gathers fine papers by the sheet, stationery, journals, sketchbooks, wrapping papers, albums and greeting cards from around the world....
Little Otsu began as a vegan accessories retailer but when it realized the vegan market as being met it morphed into a printer and retailer of creative paper goods. Now there's a progression...
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We create beautiful letterpress-printed stationery and paper goods, which we sell in our Minneapolis storefront and to high-end card and gift boutiques around the country. Shoppers will find lots...
A purveyor of Japanese hand stenciled paper, Miki's Paper proves that on rare occasions a store can be a calm, tranquil space. We're not sure why it happens, but as soon as you walk into...
Mimio celebrates "the artistry of paper". Their paper gallery has exquisite sheets of hand and machine made papers from Japan, Nepal, Thailand, India, France and Italy. Their selection...
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The Paper Boat brings Milwaukee shoppers the best of independent artists, crafters and designers including sublime stitching, happy owl glass, molly mast, blind hen, polaire, small things designs,...
Why go to Chinatown, when Chinatown comes to you? Pearl River, in its cavernous SoHo space, is a huge collection of all things Chinese. The multi-leveled store carries cookware, home accessories,...
Pulp celebrates the art of the card. The expansive (well, expansive for a stationery store anyway) store has row after row, shelf after shelf of interesting cards. Many of the cards are handmade...
What started as one person's passion for paper has turned into a perfect little paper shop. Soolip carries its paper by the sheet. Traditional Japanese papers, unique Parisian papers and...
Sure, sure Sugar Paper is sweet, but there's no artificial sweetener in the place. The shop if firmly committed to the craft of card and paper making. Choose among a selection of cards from...
Sure, sure Sugar Paper is sweet, but there's no artificial sweetener in the place. The shop if firmly committed to the craft of card and paper making. Choose among a selection of cards from...
It's almost impossible to describe Tail of the Yak. So it's probably best to just describe what's in it, the doves for example. Yes, real, peace and love doves live in a cage in the...
That's The Paper Place, with an emphasis on the "The," as in once you walk inside you really wont consider getting fine paper from anywhere else. Opened in 1982 as The Japanese...
Next to The Written Word all those other paper and stationery stores look like (in the words of Governor Arnold) "girly men". The store operates a letterpress dating back to the 1870s....
Next to The Written Word all those other paper and stationery stores look like (in the words of Governor Arnold) "girly men". The store operates a letterpress dating back to the 1870s....
Available by the dozens: tokens of your appreciateion. Token has an uncanny eye for the types of objects take make perfect gifts. Color and pattern are front and center here. Journals and wallets...
Urbane would certainly describe the selection of cards, papers and writing accoutrements at Urbanic. The wall of cards rivals the selection of paper shops thrice its size in overall quality....
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Black Ink
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Black Ink does a wonderful job of selling nothing in particular. Hello Kitty lunchboxes, rubber peanuts, squiggly sushi plates, banana-shaped doorstops and Korean composition books are among the random items that line the store's tall, narrow shelves. These aren't the types of things you can't live without, but they are the types of things that make life a little more fun.
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Address:101 Charles Street
Boston MA 02114
Site: Official Site Online Shopping: No
Phone: 1-617-723-3883
Hours: Mon-Sat: 10-7 Sun: 12-6
Black Ink
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Black Ink does a wonderful job of selling nothing in particular. Hello Kitty lunchboxes, rubber peanuts, squiggly sushi plates, banana-shaped doorstops and Korean composition books are among the random items that line the store's tall, narrow shelves. These aren't the types of things you can't live without, but they are the types of things that make life a little more fun.
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Address:5 Brattle Street
Cambridge MA 02138
Site: Official Site Online Shopping: No
Phone: 1-617-497-1221
Hours: Mon-Sat: 10-7 Sun: 12-6
Chamalyn
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If you haven't had the pleasure of eating the Black Sesame Pocky snack or using an eraser shaped like sushi or writing on a notepad decorated with some cutesy critter on acid, it's never too late to start. Chamalyn stock the sorts of snacks, gifts and diversions you'll typically only find in Tokyo.
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Address:
3491 19th Street
San Francisco CA 94110
Online Shopping: No
Phone: 1-415-850-9955
Daisy Arts
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If you go to Italy and can peel yourself away from the priceless art, the romantic settings, if you can get over the ridiculously good-looking people and the heavenly food, you may notice that Italians also make gorgeous leather journals and albums. Working with seasoned craftsmen, Daisy Arts brings this fine Italian craft to its store. The stars of the store are the handmade leather albums,...
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Address:1312 Abbot Kinney Boulevard
Venice CA 90291
Site: Official Site Online Shopping: Yes
Phone: 1-310-396-8463
Hours: Mon-Sat: 10-6 Sun: 11-6
de Medici Ming
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If you've ever received the gift of jewelry, you know full well that good things come in small packages. A little box of pulpy jewels is how we like to think of de Medici Ming Fine Paper. Browse decorative Japanese and Italian papers, writing paper, letterhead and envelopes, handmade cards, elegant giftwrap and journals and dozens of other stylish paper-related products.
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Address:
1222 1st Avenue Suite A
Seattle WA 98101
Online Shopping: No
Phone: 1-206-624-1983
Hours: Mon-Fri: 11-5:30 Sat: 12-5 Sun: Closed
Doe
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Doe is general store, San Francisco style. In what isn't the biggest space in the world they manage to squeeze in clothing for men, women and children, various home accessories, lotions and notions, art and even a good bit of jewelry. Clothing is decidedly organic--whether by using nature-inspired prints on the dresses or animal drawings on the tees. The art comes from local artists....
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Address:629a Haight Street
San Francisco CA 94117
Site: Official Site Online Shopping: Yes
Phone: 1-415-558-8588
Hours: Mon-Sat: 12-7 Sun: 12-6
Flax Art & Design
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It's hard not to walk into Flax Art & Design and be inspired. Inspired to make a card, draw a picture, frame a photograph or pick up a paint brush. The family-owned art supply store sets a new standard with its dizzying array of paints, canvases, frames, papers, chalks, pens and just about anything you're going to need to do something creative.
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Address:1699 Market Street
San Francisco CA 94103
Site: Official Site Online Shopping: Yes
Phone: 1-415-552-2355
Hours: Mon-Sat: 9:30-6 Sun: Closed
Greenwich Letterpress
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Greenwich Letterpress combines the classic craft of letterpress with modern city sensibilities. While custom work is the bread and butter of the business, the spacious retail location is notable in its own right, carrying a fun, playful spread of letterpress cards and stationery and handmade gifts and crafts from independent artists.
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Address:39 Christopher Street
New York NY 10014
Site: Official Site Online Shopping: Yes
Phone: 1-212-989-7464
Hours: Mon: 1-6 Tue-Fri: 11-7 Sat-Sun: 12-6
Greer
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No matter how many "stationery" designs e-cards offer, they never, ever match the feel, the class and the style of paper. In Greer, we see pulp's full potential. The store has collected an extremely well informed collection of cards and stationery, picking up lines of the most talented designers around the country. There's everything from Greer's own collection of...
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Address:1657 North Wells Street
Chicago IL 60614
Site: Official Site Online Shopping: Yes
Phone: 1-312-337-8000
India Ink
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India Ink is a one-stop shop for the stationery obsessed. The company specializes in designing custom stationery, whether it be personal stationery, business identity work or invitations. However, the large space is a nice retail store in its own right. In one corner are sheets of interesting wrapping papers and ribbons while another corner holds journals and albums. There is a whole wall of...
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Address:1907 Columbia Street
San Diego CA 92101
Site: Official Site Online Shopping: No
Phone: 1-619-233-4203
Hours: Mon-Sat: 10:30-5:30 Sun: Closed
In the Bag
Reader Suggested: Upscale greeting card store, also featuring gifts, gift wrap and ribbons. During the Holidays, In the Bag offers gift wrapping services.
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Address:
708 NW 23rd Avenue
Portland OR 97210
Online Shopping: No
Phone: 1-503-223-3262
Jonathan Wright
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Jonathan Wright makes the wonders of letterpress available to casual passers by. The store carries on the letterpress tradition with its quaint, one-of-a-kind letterpress cards and stationery. You'll find letterpress cards for every occasion, along with notecards, bookmarks, as well some desk accessories. Everything at the store evokes the Old World--thick, rough-edged papers, serif...
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Address:7404 Beverly Boulevard
Los Angeles CA 90036
Site: Official Site Online Shopping: No
Phone: 1-323-931-1710
Hours: Mon: Closed Tue-Fri: 10-5 Sat: 11-5 Sun: Closed
Kozo Arts
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Following age-old Japanese techniques, Kozo Arts is all about the art of paper making and book binding. Their silkscreen prints are printed on handmade paper, each color individually screened to achieve a gorgeous layered effect. Their albums, guest books and journals are made with heavy, archival quality paper and beautifully bound and covered with a decorative print. For the ultimate...
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Address:1969A Union Street
San Francisco CA 94123
Site: Official Site Online Shopping: Yes
Phone: 1-415-351-2114
Hours: Mon-Sun: 10:30-6:30
Lion in the Sun
Lion in the Sun knows good paper. The full-service paperie gathers fine papers by the sheet, stationery, journals, sketchbooks, wrapping papers, albums and greeting cards from around the world. Furthermore, the shop specializes in custom invitations for all occasions, with selections from dozens of different companies and designers, for all tastes and budgets.
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Address:232 7th Avenue
Brooklyn NY 11215
Site: Official Site Online Shopping: No
Phone: 1-718-369-4006
Hours: Mon: 11-6 Tue-Fri: 11-7 Sat-Sun: 11-6
Little Otsu
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Little Otsu began as a vegan accessories retailer but when it realized the vegan market as being met it morphed into a printer and retailer of creative paper goods. Now there's a progression that you'll only find in San Francisco. The shop's own line of artful journals, cards and planners anchor the store. But just as cool are the zines and comics, T-shirts and buttons, artwork...
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Address:849 Valencia Street
San Francisco CA 94110
Site: Official Site Online Shopping: Yes
Phone: 1-415-255-7900
Hours: Mon-Tue: Closed Wed-Sun: 11:30-7:30
Lunalux
Reader Suggested: We create beautiful letterpress-printed stationery and paper goods, which we sell in our Minneapolis storefront and to high-end card and gift boutiques around the country. Shoppers will find lots of innovative card lines (Snow and Graham, Binth, tall cow, Bella Muse, Nu Vue, to name just a few) and uncommon gifts (vintage fountain pens, Japanese stationery, great journals, fun desk...
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Address:1618 Harmon Place
Minneapolis MN 55403
Site: Official Site Online Shopping: No
Phone: 1-612-373-0526
Miki's Paper
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A purveyor of Japanese hand stenciled paper, Miki's Paper proves that on rare occasions a store can be a calm, tranquil space. We're not sure why it happens, but as soon as you walk into Miki's Paper the tone and volume of your voice changes. Perhaps it's the thought that you are in the presence of fine art, as you look at walls covered with gorgeous paper, even the plain...
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Address:
1801 4th Street
Berkeley CA 94710
Online Shopping: No
Phone: 1-510-845-9530
Hours: Mon-Thu: 10:30-6 Fri-Sat: 10:30-6:30 Sun: Closed
Mimio
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Mimio celebrates "the artistry of paper". Their paper gallery has exquisite sheets of hand and machine made papers from Japan, Nepal, Thailand, India, France and Italy. Their selection of hand-bound photo albums and journals, silky ribbons and fountain pens is second to none. They offer custom invitation services using letterpress and your choice of imported papers. They even...
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Address:38 South Raymond Avenue
Pasadena CA 91105
Site: Official Site Online Shopping: Yes
Phone: 1-626-685-9090
Hours: Mon-Wed; 10-6 Thu-Sat: 10-7 Sun: 12-5
Paper Boat Boutique & Gallery
Reader Suggested: The Paper Boat brings Milwaukee shoppers the best of independent artists, crafters and designers including sublime stitching, happy owl glass, molly mast, blind hen, polaire, small things designs, dotty speck, flying fish design and much much more. This is the first of its kind in the state of Wisconsin!
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Address:2375 South Howell Avenue
Milwaukee WI 53207
Site: Official Site Online Shopping: No
Phone: 1-414-483-8462
Hours: Mon: 12-7 Tue: Closed Wed-Fri: 12-7 Sat: 12-6 Sun: 12-5
Pearl River
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Why go to Chinatown, when Chinatown comes to you? Pearl River, in its cavernous SoHo space, is a huge collection of all things Chinese. The multi-leveled store carries cookware, home accessories, furniture, paper goods, shoes, clothing, specialty food items, and much, much more. Throwing a party? The store has lots of party supplies and decorations. Need to buy a quick gift? You'll find...
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Address:477 Broadway
New York NY 10013
Site: Official Site Online Shopping: Yes
Phone: 1-212-431-4770 or 1-800-878-2446
Hours: Mon-Sun: 10-7:20
Pulp
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Pulp celebrates the art of the card. The expansive (well, expansive for a stationery store anyway) store has row after row, shelf after shelf of interesting cards. Many of the cards are handmade affairs, while the aesthetic of the cards varies from elegant and classy, to silly and sophomoric. The store also carries papers, stationary and journals--but that's just a bonus. The cards are...
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Address:
456 South La Brea Avenue
Los Angeles CA 90036
Online Shopping: No
Phone: 1-323-937-3506
Hours: Mon-Fri: 10-8 Sat: 10-7 Sun: 10-6
Soolip Paperie & Press
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What started as one person's passion for paper has turned into a perfect little paper shop. Soolip carries its paper by the sheet. Traditional Japanese papers, unique Parisian papers and modern printed papers are among the selection. The store also carries a wide assortment of cards--from its own line of letterpress cards to hip (and often handmade) cards from a variety of small...
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Address:8646 Melrose Avenue
West Hollywood CA 90069
Site: Official Site Online Shopping: Yes
Phone: 1-310-360-0545
Hours: Mon-Sat: 10-6 Sun: 12-5
Sugar Paper
Sure, sure Sugar Paper is sweet, but there's no artificial sweetener in the place. The shop if firmly committed to the craft of card and paper making. Choose among a selection of cards from the best small design studio in the country or have custom work done on their vintage letterpress printers.
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Address:1749 Ensley Avenue
Los Angeles CA 90024
Site: Official Site Online Shopping: Yes
Phone: 1-310-277-7804
Hours: Mon-Fri: 10-6 Sat: 10-5 Sun: Closed
Sugar Paper
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Sure, sure Sugar Paper is sweet, but there's no artificial sweetener in the place. The shop if firmly committed to the craft of card and paper making. Choose among a selection of cards from the best small design studio in the country or have custom work done on their vintage letterpress printers.
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Address:225 26th St #27
Santa Monica CA 90402
Site: Official Site Online Shopping: Yes
Phone: 1-310-451-7870
Hours: Mon-Fri: 10-6 Sat: 10-5 Sun: 11-5
Tail of the Yak
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It's almost impossible to describe Tail of the Yak. So it's probably best to just describe what's in it, the doves for example. Yes, real, peace and love doves live in a cage in the middle of the store. The store, a Berkeley institution, is a page from a fairy tale, and while the doves aren't for sale, paper whimsies, French soaps and glassware, wrapping paper and other...
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Address:
2632 Ashby Avenue
Berkeley CA 94705
Online Shopping: No
Phone: 1-510-841-9891
Hours: Mon-Sat: 11-5:30 Sun: Closed
The Paper Place
That's The Paper Place, with an emphasis on the "The," as in once you walk inside you really wont consider getting fine paper from anywhere else. Opened in 1982 as The Japanese Paper Place, the store still carries an incredible collection of traditional Japanese papers. Chiogami (machine-made silk-screened papers) and Katazome-shi (stencil-edged papers) come in dozens of...
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Address:887 Queen Street West
Toronto ON M6J 1G5
Site: Official Site Online Shopping: No
Phone: 1-416-703-0089
Hours: Mon-Wed: 10-6 Thu-Fri: 10-8 Sat: 10-6 Sun: Closed
The Written Word
Next to The Written Word all those other paper and stationery stores look like (in the words of Governor Arnold) "girly men". The store operates a letterpress dating back to the 1870s. They carry papers from Italian companies dating back to the 15th century and French mills dating to the 13th century. If you want a quick card for mom you can, we suppose, just as well go somewhere...
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Address:1427 P Street NW
Washington DC 20036
Site: Official Site Online Shopping: Yes
Phone: 1-202-223-1400
Hours: Mon-Sat: 11-7 Sun: 12-5
The Written Word
Next to The Written Word all those other paper and stationery stores look like (in the words of Governor Arnold) "girly men". The store operates a letterpress dating back to the 1870s. They carry papers from Italian companies dating back to the 15th century and French mills dating to the 13th century. If you want a quick card for mom you can, we suppose, just as well go somewhere...
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Address:21 North Washington Street
Berkeley Springs WV 25411
Site: Official Site Online Shopping: Yes
Phone: 1-304-258-0883
Hours: Mon-Fri: 11-5 Sat-Sun: Closed
Token
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Available by the dozens: tokens of your appreciateion. Token has an uncanny eye for the types of objects take make perfect gifts. Color and pattern are front and center here. Journals and wallets are wrapped in luxurious leather (often dyed in pastel colors). Pillows are topped with zany desigs and scribbles. Canvas bags and carry-alls are wrapped in rich patterned fabrics. Greeting cards...
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Address:
888 Queen Street West
Toronto ON M6J 1G3
Online Shopping: No
Phone: 1-416-516-9586
Hours: Mon-Tue: Closed Wed: 12-6 Thu-Fri: 11-7 Sat: 11-6 Sun: 12-5
Urbanic
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Urbane would certainly describe the selection of cards, papers and writing accoutrements at Urbanic. The wall of cards rivals the selection of paper shops thrice its size in overall quality. Whether employing letterpress, intricate cut-outs, sharp typography or deep inks, the cards exude class and elegance. Papers are more limited in selection but also hit the right notes--there's...
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Address:1644 Abbot Kinney Boulevard
Venice CA 90291
Site: Official Site Online Shopping: No
Phone: 1-310-401-0427
Hours: Mon-Sat: 11-7 Sun: 11-6
