Our Christmas Card To You

Lovely new website

Please check out Pomegranate's shiny, new website.

It's fresh, it's easy to navigate and has terrific Artist Galleries.

Don't delay, take a peek NOW: www.pomegranate.com and let us know what you think!

Delightful Diaries...

If you need a beautiful yet organised place to note all of your appointments, notes and reminders throughout 2011, look no further than the gorgeous Pomegranate engagement diaries!

Available now, these stunning planners feature 30+ full colour reproductions, weekly grids, monthly grids and full double page spreads showing both 2011 and 2012 and plenty of space for all the appointments of even the busiest of people.

Including fantastic titles such as Dharma Days, our spiritual guide to the path that we call life, and Monet's Passion, a bright, vivid look at the personal gardens which inspired the classic Artist.

Our 2011 range is selling lightening fast! So order today to secure your stock!

It's Bonfire Night

Happy Guy Fawkes Night! Let the sparklers sparkle . . . . .



Fireworks Over Ryoguku Bridge Postcard

Ando Hiroshige (Japanese, 1797-1858).
From 100 Views of Edo. Edo period, 1856-1858.
Colour woodblock print. Honolulu Academy of Arts.
4 1/4 x 6 inch postcard.

Anguished and Forgotten!

How we love our language, so why not share it this Christmas with our Block Calendars.

RICHARD LEDERER'S ANGUISHED ENGLISH 365-DAY CALENDAR 2011
“Hair Cut While You Wait.” “Squad Helps Dog Bite Victim.” “Satellite Tracks Cows from Outer Space.” These are some of the absurdly hilarious linguistic lapses gleaned by Richard Lederer from advertisements, signs, newspaper headlines, and other everyday sources.
Dr. Lederer, author of more than thirty books about language, history, and humor, has compiled 313 entries for this calendar (Saturdays and Sundays share a page and an entry), each one a real-world sighting.
Thirteen categories include “Misdirected Directions,” “Lost in Translation,” and “Disorder in the Court!” Also included are yearly grids for 2011 and 2012 and pages for notes.

By Richard Lederer. 365-day padded tear-off calendar with plastic base.
Size: 6¼ x 5¼ in. (box 7 x 6 in.).
Printed with soy-based inks.
ISBN: 978-0-7649-5213-5.
RRP: £9.99


JEFFREY KACIRK'S FORGOTTEN ENGLISH 365-DAY CALENDAR 2011
Word sleuth extraordinaire Jeffrey Kacirk has compiled another year’s worth of long-lost linguistic curiosities. With 313 unforgettable entries (Saturdays and Sundays share a page), Forgotten English unfurls a lexicon illuminating vanished professions, objects, activities, situations, etiquette, and states of mind. Obscure festivals, birthdays of significance, unsavory recipes, and dubious medical and hygienic procedures are also noted.

The calendar also includes a brief biography of the author, yearly grids for 2011 and 2012, and pages for notes 365-day padded tear-off calendar with plastic base.
Size: 6¼ x 5¼ in. (box 7 x 6 in.).
Printed with soy-based inks.
ISBN: 978-0-7649-5210-4.
RRP £9.99

AVAILABLE NOW FROM POMEGRANATE EUROPE:
t: 01926 430111
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Say Thank You in a special way

With these beautiful Inuit Thank You Cards.



Preening Owl by Kenojuak Ashevak, from Dorset Fine Arts.

Ten 3 1/2 x 5 inch blank notecards with "Thank You" printed on the front and white envelopes in an acetate-topped four-color box.
ISBN 978-0-7649-4230-3.
RRP: £4.99

Pomegranate's range of Inuit Art products is unique, to know more about Inuit Art click here:
http://pomegranate.stores.yahoo.net/0279.html

The Spookiest of Halloween Gifts

EDWARD GOREY'S DRACULA - TOY THEATRE


Bram Stoker's 1897 novel took place in the wild Carpathian Mountains, London and rural England, and various places in between. But the Dracula for which Edward Gorey created the set designs reproduced in miniature here--a version that ran to nearly a thousand Broadway performances--compresses the action to one locale: the sanatorium of Dr. Seward, near the town of Purley, somewhere in the English countryside.
Based on Edward Gorey's set and costume designs for his award-winning production of Dracula, these die-cut, scored, and perforated foldups and foldouts include:

• 3 pop-up 16 x 12" stage sets (only one is shown above)
• Cast of 8 (15 figures in all)
• Stage Furniture
• 4-page booklet with exceptionally simple assembly instructions, a synopsis of Gorey's Broadway adaptation of Dracula, and notes on Edward Gorey (1925-2000) and his many magical creations.
• Cigar-box style packaging, approximately 8 1/2 X 12 1/2 X 1"
• ISBN: 978-0-7649-4541-0.
• RRP: £18.99

From Pomegranate Europe Ltd
t: +44 [0] 1926 430111
sales@pomeurope.co.uk

HAPPY HALLOWEEN 2010

Hair Raising Spookyness No 3

And what halloween movie do we think they have just watched?

Haute Coiffure Postcard


Just one of our many retro, black & white Postcards.
Contact us for a Postcard catalogue:
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Brace Yourself: Spookyness No 2

SUPER NATURAL OR SCIENTIFIC? A QUIZ DECK ON MYSTERIOUS PHENOMENA, URBAN LEGENDS, AND PARANORMAL EVENTS.


From the dawn of time, humans have attempted to explain the unexplainable, fashioning fanciful stories to make sense of the unknown. Ghosts, sea monsters, vampires, witches, unicorns, and more have always been the fodder of mythology. But lest you think this is a mere peculiarity of long-ago times, think aliens and UFOs, crop circles, and the Bermuda Triangle—modern man is no less susceptible to concocting curious interpretations of seemingly inexplicable phenomena. This quiz deck of 48 cards runs the gamut of odd events and legends throughout history—from Sasquatch to the Jersey Devil, haunted houses to puzzling diseases, the stones of Carnac to the enigmatic human-sized holes of Peru. So gather 'round and brace yourself for a trip through the unsettling, strange, and spooky recesses of the mysterious.

Published with GeoNova Publishing.
With 48 fact-filled cards per package, Knowledge Cards are a great source of condensed information—all in a deck the size of a pack of playing cards.
Size: 3 1/4 x 4".
ISBN 978-0-7649-5163-3.

Available now from Pomegranate Europe:
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Spooky Week with Pomegranate

In the lead up to Halloween we are going to feature some of our 'spooky' wares ..... so stop carving out the pumpkin and have a read:-

THE FAIRY FELLER'S MASTER STROKE - Jigsaw Puzzle


The Fairy Feller’s Master-Stroke, 1855–1864 by Richard Dadd (English, 1817–1886).
Published with the Tate Collection.

The Fairy Feller’s Master-Stroke is the best-known painting by English artist Richard Dadd (1817–1886), many of whose paintings reflect his interest in supernatural subjects, especially fairies. A promising artist at an early age, he began studies at the Royal Academy Schools in London at the age of twenty. Within five years, however, he began to display signs of insanity and soon afterward was confined to a mental hospital. Dadd created The Fairy Feller’s Master-Stroke while at Bethlem Hospital, the first of two institutions where he spent the last forty-four years of his life. The painting, drawn from his imagination, shows the “fairy-feller” about to crack open a large chestnut to be used in the construction of Queen Mab’s new fairy carriage. Dadd’s masterpiece is housed in the Tate in the United Kingdom.

Thoughtfully conceived and engagingly intricate, our 1,000-piece interlocking jigsaw puzzles combine superb color reproduction, stunning and unusual images, and sturdy construction to delight generations of novice and veteran puzzleworkers.
Puzzle size: 20 x 27".
Box size: 10 x 13 x 1 7/8 in. ISBN: 978-0-7649-5542-6.
(WARNING: Choking hazard—small parts. Not suitable for children under 3 years.)
RRP: £10.99

Contact us for details of our fantastic Jigsaw Puzzle range, we have over 70 stunning images!
sales@pomeurope.co.uk
t: +44 (0) 1 926 430111

In Praise of Millet

Happy Birthday

Jean-François Millet (October 4, 1814 – January 20, 1875) was a French painter and one of the founders of the Barbizon School in rural France.

Millet was an important source of inspiration for Van Gogh, particularly during his early period. Millet and his work are mentioned many times in Vincent's letters to his brother Theo. Millet's late landscapes would serve as influential points of reference to Monet's paintings of the coast of Normandy; his structural and symbolic content influenced Seurat's as well.



View more of Millet's work in our 100 YEARS OF FRENCH PAINTING Book of Postcards:-

You will find examples of the traditional grand portraiture of Jacques-Louis David; the romantic bravura of Theodore Gericault; idealized descriptions of country living by Barbizon artists Jean-Francois Millet and Camille Corot; the social satire of Honore Daumier; brilliant and deceptively casual “snapshots” of everyday subjects by Edgar Degas; a voyeuristic look at an “exotic” culture by Jean-Leon Gerome; the cool academic representation of the ideal human form exemplified by William Bouguereau; experiments in new subjects and painting techniques developed by Impressionists such as Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Claude Monet, and Camille Pissarro; the radical approach to color and pattern of post-Impressionist Paul Gauguin; and more. These different artistic visions demonstrate the dramatic breadth of style and subject produced by nineteenth-century French artists.

Thirty full-color oversized postcards (6 1/2 x 4 3/4 in.) in a handy bound collection.
ISBN 0-7649-3729-4.
RRP £5.99

Available from Pomegranate Europe Ltd
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A Poem for National Poetry Day

As the summer's gone,
we are not surprised to see
autumn rain at night
-Eiki [1823-1904]

A poem from Pomegranate's new book:


Haiku Japanese Art and Poetry
Available Now
ISBN: 978-0-7649-5610-2
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Haiku Japanese Art & Poetry

How beautiful is this, our new Book Haiku presenting 35 pairs of poems and images, organised seasonally.

The strictest and purest of poetic forms, the Japanese haiku contains in its seventeen sound characters a reference to a season as well as a distinct pause or interruption. Cherry blossoms and swallows might refer to spring; red maple leaves and deer usually imply autumn. These seasonal allusions emphasize the essence of haiku: nature and its ephemeral beauty.

The graceful, evocative haiku featured here were composed by the renowned Japanese haiku masters of the past four hundred years, including Matsuo Bashō, Taniguchi Buson, and Kobayashi Issa. The deceptively simple poems—rendered in English with Japanese calligraphies and transliterations—are paired with exquisite eighteenth- or nineteenth-century paintings and ukiyo-e prints and twentieth-century shin hanga woodcuts from the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Canada. With their depth and delicacy, wide range of subtle hues, and time-honored focus on landscapes, birds, and flowers, these artworks—like their haiku counterparts—quietly capture a moment in time.

Haiku: Japanese Art and Poetry presents thirty-five pairs of poems and images, organized seasonally. The Introduction details the origin and development of haiku, the lives of the most famous poets, and the obstacles faced when translating the concise yet complex lines.

By authors Judith Patt, Michiko Warkentyne, and Barry Till.
80 pages with 35 color reproductions. Size: 8 x 8".
Hardcover smyth-sewn casebound book, with jacket.
ISBN 978-0-7649-5610-2
£10.99

Available now from Pomegranate
t: [+44] 0 1926 430111
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Weather Forecast

Think this accurately sums up our weather at the moment:

Gray and Cold by John Rogers Cox [1942]

Gloomy or not this is still a powerful piece of art and is available as a Notecard from Pomegranate. Contact us for a Notecard catalogue:-

t: +44 (0) 1926 460111
e: sales@pomeurope.co.uk

The Koala Conga Line

Doesn't this just want to make you burst out into 'We Are Family' by Sister Sledge?

Just one of Pomegranate wonderful notecards from the Sierra Club range; Koala [or to be more precise Phascolartctos cinereus] conga line, photographed by Mituaki Iwago.

Contact us now for a Sierra Club catalogue:
+44 [0] 1926 430111
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Super Plant

Super Plant [1995]
Fred Tomaselli

"I want people to get lost in the work. I want to seduce people into it and I want people to escape inside the world of the work. In that way the work is pre-Modernist. I throw all of my obsessions and loves into the work, and I try not to be too embarrassed about any of it. I love nature, I love gardening, I love watching birds, and all of that gets into the work. I just try to be true to who I am and make the work I want to see. I don’t have a radical agenda."

Just one of our new single, blank notecards available now. For a catalogue contact us:

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The Awdrey-Gore Legacy

What do these have in common?
1. St Spasmus' Day
2. A Nameless poacher
3. A guilt ballroom chair
4. Suthick & Upters Auction Rooms ...

....they are all featured in the Introductionary Notes of the Awdrey Gore Legacy by Edward Gorey, a shiny new book from Pomegranate



"The smallest clue may be [or not] the one to give away the plot'
the Ipsiad, can 1
Miss D. Awdrey-Gore, renowned 97-year-old writer of detective stories, is found murdered; then a mysterious hidden packet is discovered. Addressed to her publisher, it contains what appear to be notes and drawings related to a literary work in progress. The contents “in their entirety—though certain things are patently missing” comprise clues about the who, what, when, where, and how of Awdrey-Gore’s demise. Or do they? Edward Gorey takes us on a rollicking ride in this merry murder mystery, but whether or not the killer is revealed is open to speculation.

Like his fictional dame novelist, Gorey (1925–2000) was a prolific author. Creator of more than one hundred works, he was also an artist, playwright, award-winning set and costume designer, and creator of the animated introduction to the PBS series Mystery! First published in 1972, The Awdrey-Gore Legacy remains one of Gorey’s most treasured tales, satisfying the sleuth in each of us.

64 pages with more than 50 colour and black-and-white Gorey drawings.
Size: 8 1/2 x 6".
Hardcover smyth-sewn casebound book, with jacket.
ISBN 978-0-7649-5509-9.
£9.99

Available now from sales@pomeurope.co.uk +44 [0] 1926043011

Pheromone Plus

As well as our Christopher Marley hardback book Pheromone, we also have Marley stationery & gift products. Check out below:


Jigsaws, Bookmarks, Boxed Notes and Colouring Books.

All available from Pomegranate Europe
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Rhys Road Test's the big book of Pheremone

8 year old Rhys Hayden road tests Pomegranate's big hardback book Pheromone!


He may only be 8 but Rhys knows a thing or 80 about insects and so we sat him down and asked him to road test our Pheromone book. At first he was a little quiet but his face was full of wonder and surprise at the beautiful page layouts of Christopher Marley's jaw dropping work. Then the ooh's and aghhh's came on strong, Rhys was sold and gave it 10 out of 10, the thumbs up we wanted AND, just to let you know, that Road Test Rhys already knew some of the technical names for the insects which really impressed us at Pom.
Thanks Rhys.

This book presents the compositions of Christopher Marley: assemblages of real insect bodies that display brilliant colour and otherworldly form. The colours are entirely natural, and to render the reproductions as accurate as possible some have been reproduced with fifth-colour metallic inks and highlighted with spot varnish.

Accompanying the broad sample of Marley’s work is a series of essays by the artist: “Design of Insects,” “Insects in Design,” “History,” “Color,” “The Coleoptera Mosaics: An Exercise in Color,” “Repetition,” “Structure,” “Texture,” “Variations,” “Botanicals,” “Size,” and “Environmental Effects.”

Christopher Marley was born in Covina, California, and grew up near Salem, Oregon. At 19 years old, he began his travels while serving as a missionary for two years in the Atacama Desert of northern Chile. Upon his return, he balanced studying design at Brigham Young University with extended sabbaticals to work both on and off camera for scores of fashion brands such as Donna Karan, Gucci, and Giorgio Armani. Over more than a decade, his assignments to dozens of countries in Asia, Europe, Africa, and the Americas spawned a passionate drive to share the unending variety of surprising natural artifacts with an unsuspecting public through his artwork. In addition to insects, his mediums of design include fossils, minerals, botanicals, bones, and sea life. His work has been featured in numerous magazines and is sold through hundreds of galleries, stores, and showrooms in the United States and abroad.

256 pages, with more than 170 colour photographs and indexes of artworks and specimens, both by common and scientific names.
Smyth-sewn casebound book with jacket.
Size: 9 1/4 x 12 in.
ISBN 978-0-7649-4619-6.
£39.95

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Calling all Sea Life Centres

Check this out-Must have products for your gift shops.

Contact us for a copy of our Sea Life flyer, easy delivery instructions, samples or cost prices.
We also have low Minimum Order levels.

sales@pomeurope.co.uk
01926 430111

Calling All Discovery Centres

.... and Science & Nature Centres. We know you are well aware that Summer Holidays are upon us and we'd like to help with adding something a little different to your Gift Shop range. Here is our new flyer, chokka block with new and exciting product. If you would like a copy of the flyer, order details or a sample of anything - please contact us at:

sales@pomeurope.co.uk
t: 01926 430111

Endangered Places Knowledge Card Deck

The Earth is forever changing:



The Earth is forever changing. An age of ice is succeeded by drought—and then another ice age. Sporadic mass extinctions seem to threaten life itself. At the dawn of the twenty-first century, the forces of change seem to have conspired: deserts are spreading, cities and farms are gobbling down open spaces, seas are rising. To cope with an increasing number of endangered places, local and international efforts have included evacuating low-lying islands, diverting water flows, and encouraging eco-tourism. This deck of 48 quiz cards surveys the globe, from the Great Barrier Reef to the Amish farmlands of Pennsylvania, testing your knowledge and teaching you all about the threatened regions of the Earth.

Text by Matthew S. Tharp.
A portion of the proceeds from the sale of this product supports Sierra Club’s efforts to preserve and protect the planet.
ISBN 978-0-7649-5387-3.
£5.95

Available from sales@pomeurope.co.uk
Tel: 01926430111

New Knowledge Card Week: TO THE MOON!

Ooops we missed one this week so today we are going to present 2 new decks to you. Here's the first one:-

TO THE MOON: A Quiz Deck on the Lunar Journey





This fact-packed quiz deck delves deep into the story of lunar exploration—the technology and spacecraft, the personnel, the national politics, and more—with forty-eight cards written in a lively Q&A format. Each card front poses a question, such as “Which Apollo mission was the first to carry astronauts into space?” or “What were the first words spoken from the lunar surface?” Answers are on the card backs, with pertinent, insightful background information. From the extraordinary concerted effort behind the first Apollo mission to the last astronaut to set foot on the moon, To the Moon! offers an absorbing mini-course on the race to explore our planet’s nearest neighbour.

Published with the Smithsonian Institution.
With 48 fact-filled cards per package, Knowledge Cards are a great source of condensed information—all in a deck the size of a pack of playing cards.
Size: 3 1/4 x 4".
ISBN 978-0-7649-5455-9.
£5.95

Available from sales@pomeurope.co.uk
Tel: 01926430111

Knowledge Card Deck Week: Rocks & Minerals

Day 2 of our New Knowledge Card Deck week:-

WHAT DO YOU KNOW ABOUT ROCKS, MINERALS, AND GEMS?

Quiz Deck

Pristine diamonds, radiant rubies and sapphires, and other gorgeous gems captivate us with their extraordinary beauty and brilliance. But beyond their aesthetic appeal, the gems, minerals, and rocks of the world are essential to our very existence; they are the building blocks of the universe. This quiz deck presents a well-rounded sampling of mineral lore in a Q&A format, with a question—often accompanied by a color photograph—on the front and the answer on the back of each of the forty-eight cards. Together they offer a fascinating tour of the mineral kingdom, from the legendary Hope Diamond to corals and cultured pearls, dazzling crystalline caves, and the mysterious sarsens of Stonehenge.

Sample Card TextAmber, jet, coral, shell, pearl, and ivory are collectively known as what?

Answer Organic gems. These are all formed by or from living matter. Amber is fossilized tree sap; jet is a type of coal formed from ancient plant matter. Coral and shells are the exoskeletons of certain marine organisms, and pearls are concretions formed by certain shelled mollusks. Ivory is dentine formed by different mammals but is most commonly elephant tusk.

With 48 fact-filled cards per package, Knowledge Cards are a great source of condensed information—all in a deck the size of a pack of playing cards.

Size: 3 1/4 x 4".

ISBN 978-0-7649-5458-0.

RRP: £5.95

Available from sales@pomeurope.co.uk

Phone 01926 430111 for a new Knowledge Card catalogue.

Brand New Knowledge Card Week

In our Brand New Product Launch we have some new Knowledge Card Decks and we are going to feature a new deck every day of this week. As always, they are eclectic, fun and more important: they are all available now!

EACH DECK contains 48 cards with questions or images on one side and answers or images on the reverse. Bite-sized info in one neat pack, retailing at £5.95.

Todays deck is:  IN SEARCH OF A PERFECT WORLD, Architectural, Political, Social, and Literary Vision of Utopia.

From the People’s Church to Plato’s republic, utopian communities too often fail as extremism edges out moderation. What child of Woodstock could tolerate the Platonic state, with its embargo on music? And as to Thomas More’s creation, it’s all about perspective: the slaves who drove Utopia’s economy might have preferred a different arrangement.

Yet time and again women and men have left the hurly-burly of the city for an agrarian idyll in the belief that a perfect world—or a nearly perfect acre—might be possible. This quiz deck of 48 cards, with questions on one side and answers on the other, offers a realistic survey of utopias around the world and throughout history.

With 48 fact-filled cards per package, Knowledge Cards are a great source of condensed information—all in a deck the size of a pack of playing cards.

Size: 3 1/4 x 4".

By David Weinstein.

ISBN 978-0-7649-5501-3.

Contact us on 01926 430111 or sales@pomeurope.co.uk

for our NEW Knowledge Card catalogue.

Happy Birthday Mr Larsson!

May 28th, birthday of one of the most prolific Swedesh painters in history.

Happy Birthady Mr Carl Larsson.

Pomegranate have a fantastic range of products featuring some of the most stunning of Carl Larsson's works. all of which can be seen here.

Another wave of awesome new product...

That's right, the Pomegranate mid year launch is now ready and available, and it's a cracker!

Click here to see the full launch in all it's glory.

Should you require further information, samples or anything else please do not hesitate to contact us.

sales@pomeurope.co.uk

PG Live - THE MOVIE!

Our sales Director Ley is having a great time at this year's PG Live show, if you're in the London area you should pop in and see her at stand 236.

Here's the stand in moving pictures, often known as video.

Ley and Sara (Specialist Sales) will be at the PG Live show all day today and tomorrow and will be happy to help you with any questions or queries you may have, or even just to show you some of the gorgeous new product we're releasing.

Alternatively you can follow their live updates at twitter, by following @Pomeurope

Shop of the Month: Hus & Hem

This Month's shop of the month is Scandinavian retailer "Hus & Hem," a fairly new account to Pomegranate, but in the few months we've been dealing with them they've seen great success in some of our most beautiful product ranges....


"Hus & Hem means house and home in Swedish, a suitable name for a shop that sells exactly that, lovely Scandinavian things that furnish, decorate and brighten up your home. We launched our website a year to the day of opening our shop and source our products on our thrice yearly shopping trips to Denmark and Sweden. We are always on the look out for new ideas and trends from the small individual makers often not seen out of Scandinavia.

As huge fans of Charlie Harper and father of Scandinavian design, Carl Larsson, we were delighted to find Pomegranate stationary at a local trade fair, it literally stopped us in our tracks. This range has been hugely successful it seems to appeal to all age groups, the quality is fantastic and the price point is perfect."

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Hus & Hem's new website is beautiful, brimming with style and class, just like their fantastic range of Scandinavian home and gift products. From furniture to greeting cards, you're sure to find the touch of Swedish style you're looking for.



So if you're looking for that perfect piece of Scandinavian furniture to compliment your home, or some of Pomegranate's gorgeous Charley Harper, or Carl Larsson products to impress your friends, Hus & Hem should be your first stop!

If you happen to be in Ledbury, you'll find this "hidden gem" 16 paces up an alleyway, a pretty little double fronted shop in a courtyard just off of Ledbury High Street. (a map is available on the Hus & Hem website)

Glorious Gorey

Edward Gorey: The New Poster Book The Doubtful Guest, Amy and Basil Gashlycrumb, Dracula and Lucy, Jumblies, the Great Veiled Bear—this curious cast of characters joins a slew of other peculiar people and beasts in this big beauty of a book. Thirty large-format reproductions display Edward Gorey's signature crosshatched drawings, elegant watercolors, and endless wit—all perfect for framing, or to treasure as a collection.

This is a brand-new publication, not a remake of Gorey Posters(Abrams, 1979), now long out of print. With eighteen images in full color, Edward Gorey: The New Poster Book presents a refreshing and engaging survey of the genius of this beloved artist.

Creator of more than one hundred works, Edward Gorey (1925-2000) was also a playwright, an award-winning set and costume designer, and the creator of the animated introduction to the PBS series Mystery!


By Edward Gorey. 64 pages with 30 large-format reproductions, 18 in color. Size: 10 1/4 x 15 in. Smyth-sewn paperbound book. ISBN 978-0-7649-5147-3

Pom Shop of the Month THE TOKENHOUSE

We are pleased to launch our gallery of Pom Shops of the Month starting with The Tokenhouse in Nottingham.

The Tokenhouse have supported the Pomegranate list for many years and say:-

"We think Pomegranate products fill a gap in the market, particularly the Leather Journals and Knowledge Cards. They make good presents for men. The calendars have a strong following, Waterhouse, Forgotten English and now England By Rail which evokes great nostalgia. With their range of calendars it is often possible to tie in with local museum exhibitions."

The Tokenhouse, one of England's few remaining privately owned gift shops!
They are not part of a group or chain - they are independent, creative and constantly changing.
Situated in Nottingham's historic Bridlesmith Gate, they have traded successfully for over 37 years. Theye stock a wide and exciting range of original gifts, cards, jewellery, pottery and cosmetics.
The items offered on this site are only a fraction of what they carry in the shop!

THE BEST CARD SELECTION IN NOTTINGHAM!

At the Tokenhouse they have an amazing selection of greetings cards from dozens of specialist UK suppliers. If you can't find what you're looking for we'll be amazed!

Weddings, anniversaries, sympathy, new home, new job, retiring, new baby, christening, acceptance, graduation, exam success, every birthday, and thousands of blank cards in a multitude of designs and styles.

OPENING TIMES
Monday to Friday 9.00am -6.00pm

SATURDAY 9.00am - 6.00pm

SUNDAY 11.30am - 4.00pm

www.thetokenhouse.co.uk
©the tokenhouse 2009

Happy Birthday Mr Van Gogh!

Vincent Willem van Gogh (30 March 1853 – 29 July 1890) was a Dutch post-Impressionist20th century art for its vivid colours and emotional impact. He suffered from anxiety and increasingly frequent bouts of mental illness throughout his life, and died largely unknown, at the age of 37, from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

Little appreciated during his lifetime, his fame grew in the years after his death. Today, he is widely regarded as one of history's greatest painters and an important contributor to the foundations of modern art. Van Gogh did not begin painting until his late twenties, and most of his best-known works were produced during his final two years. He produced more than 2,000 artworks, consisting of around 900 paintings and 1,100 drawings and sketches. Although he was little known during his lifetime, his work was a strong influence on the Modernist art that followed. Today many of his pieces—including his numerous self portraits, landscapes, portraits and sunflowers—are among the world's most recognizable and expensive works of art.

You can find a great range of Van Gogh products on the Pomegranate Website.

Last New Book of the Week

All this week we have been featuring a new book each day, and to end our New Book week here's:

AMISH ABSTRACTIONS

At first glance, Amish quilts may appear curiously similar to works by the great abstract artists of the twentieth century. With their vibrant colors and bold geometric forms, the handcrafted designs seem reminiscent of paintings by Joseph Albers, Mark Rothko, and Frank Stella, among others. This visual coincidence invites a deeper appreciation of the quilts and the communities in which they were created. Closer examination reveals that the principles of the Amish faith—simplicity, humility, discipline, and community—are masterfully stitched into each design. Colorful and dynamic, the remarkable quilts radiate the harmony and dignity of Amish life while providing a window onto the history of American art and textile traditions.

Published in conjunction with the exhibition organized by the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Amish Abstractions: Quilts from the Collection of Faith and Stephen Brown explores the origins, techniques, and context of these visual masterpieces. More than seventy-five quilts originating in communities throughout Pennsylvania and the Midwest from the 1880s to the 1940s are presented with contributions by three quilt experts: Joe Cunningham, a well-known quilt artist, author, and lecturer; Robert Shaw, an independent curator of numerous quilt exhibitions; and Janneken Smucker, a doctoral candidate at the University of Delaware specializing in quilts from the Amish and Mennonite traditions.

PAGE SPREADS

Includes Collector’s Note by Faith and Stephen Brown. 128 pages with more than 90 colour images. Size: 9 x 10½ inches. Smyth-sewn casebound book, with jacket. ISBN 978-0-7649-5165-7.

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New Book Week: GLORIOUS GOREY

Today's NEW BOOK is THE DONG WITH THE LUMINOUS NOSE by Edward Gorey


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Text by Edward Lear; illustrated by Edward Gorey. 48 pages with 22 black-and-white illustrations. Smyth-sewn casebound book with jacket. Size: 8 ½ x 6 inches. ISBN 978-0-7649-5427-6.

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£8.99 11.50Euro

Evilution - what a title!

Day Three of Pomegranate's NEW BOOK week.

THE ADDAMS FAMILY AN EVILUTION

The “evilution” of Charles Addams’s singularly eccentric family began long before the television and film interpretations made them icons of American popular culture. Addams first created Morticia, Lurch, and The Thing in a cartoon published in a 1938 issue of the New Yorker—though he hadn’t named them at the time, or even conceived of a family unit. (When he did name the deadly matriarch, he was inspired by the Yellow Pages listing for “Morticians.”) Other characters were born and developed in a multitude of Addams’s cartoons over the next twenty-six years, before the cheerfully creepy clan debuted on ABC television in 1964 and later on the big screen, twice, in 1991 and 1993.

The Addams Family: An Evilution is the first book to trace The Addams Family history, presenting more than 200 cartoons created by Charles Addams (American, 1912–1988) throughout his prolific career; many have never been published before. Text by H. Kevin Miserocchi, director of the Tee and Charles Addams Foundation, offers a revealing chronology of each character’s evolution (for instance, did you know that Addams originally named Pugsley “Pubert”?), while Addams’s own incisive character descriptions, originally penned for the benefit of the television show producers, introduce each chapter. As the presence of the Family continues to permeate generation after generation, and in celebration of the Broadway musical debuting in 2010, this book reminds us where these oddly lovable characters came from and, in doing so, offers a lasting tribute to one of America’s greatest humorists. A phenomenon of rare proportion, The Addams Family is the manifestation of one artist’s dark but irresistible wit, expressed with an uncommonly deft hand.

Sample page spread

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By Kevin Miserocchi. 224 pages with more than 200 cartoons (approximately 50 are published here for the first time), many in color. Ten chapters explore each Addams Family character, as well as their mansion (a “House To Die For”). Size: 8 x 10 inches. Smyth-sewn casebound book with jacket. ISBN 978-0-7649-5388-0.

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£27.95 30.00Euro