John Derian Sticker Book II adapts the imagery into a giftable set of more than 800 stickers. Derian, known for his decoupage homewares and antique-print eye, has drawn the collection entirely from his own archive of vintage artworks: flowers rendered in saturated colour, birds, insects, forest creatures, and the odd fanciful curiosity.
Each image is designed to be peeled off and applied wherever it's wanted, on paper, furniture, or walls, in the same spirit as Derian's own decoupage work. The 320-page hardback format makes it as much an object to keep on a shelf as a tool to use, suited equally to adults and children.
ABOUT the MAKER
John Derian
Since 1989, John Derian has worked from a single New York studio, turning the technique of decoupage into a signature practice of its own. Each object begins with a print pulled from his archive of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century engravings and illustrations: botanical studies, maritime scenes, playing cards, birds, and fragments of natural history. Trained artisans cut the images by hand, layer them beneath hand-blown glass, and seal them so the paper becomes part of the object itself, not simply applied to its surface. The result sits somewhere between a functional object and a small work of art: a paperweight, a desk cup, a cake pedestal, a tray. We carry the collection at Tessuti because each piece holds its history openly. The prints are old, the glass is blown by hand, and no two pieces are ever quite identical, so what arrives on a shelf or a desk carries a little of the studio it came from. These are pieces meant to be used and lived with rather than kept for display alone, gathering the marks of everyday life the way any well-loved object does over time.
