Hopie Stockman Hill and Grier Stockman grew up in an old farmhouse in a sylvan pocket of New Jersey. They played in wheat fields, craggy apple orchards and dense forests; built birdhouses and painted murals. The sisters’ childhood, spent merging art with nature, inspired their latest wallpaper collection from Block Shop, their textile, art and design studio, which combines a breezy California aesthetic with Indian printing and weaving techniques. The seven new patterns, which are printed on paper, fiber and grass cloth, include a peony motif that’s a homage to the blooms their mother grew, while also referencing the Austrian Wiener Werkstätte designer Dagobert Peche. “We envisioned an Anne Bancroft-esque grande dame with a sky-high collection of art books, listening to ‘Madama Butterfly’while harvesting her beets,” says Stockman Hill, the CEO and creative director of the studio. “These are the wallpapers you find in her home.” The Block Shop store, which opened in Los Angeles’s Atwater Village neighborhood this past December, further extends the sisters’ canvas with a harmonious blend of color and texture. A bronze snail door handle greets you on the way in, while the shelves are brimming with Apuglian splatterware dishes, rare books on décor and semi-fine jewelry, as well as the brand’s signature textiles.
La Joie De Vivre, A New Bookstore Cafe, Opens In Manhattan
30.03.2024 - 17:27 / forbes.com / Art
Literary Francophiles, your time has come. A new independent French and English languages bookstore and café just opened in Manhattan. And the vibes are parfaite.
Located at 145 West 27 St. in NoMad, La Joie de Vivre offers a quick getaway to France. 50% of books sold in the store are in French, offering French language literature, art, cooking, graphic novels and children’s books categories to New York’s French speakers. Of course, plenty of English language books are sold as well, for Francophiles who haven’t quite mastered their temps composés.
Posters, games, stationary, accessories and merch are also sold on-site.
Like any great bookstore, La Joie de Vivre also has an in-store cafe offering beverages and French pastries sourced from local bakeries.
A robust events calendar is promised, along with regular photography and painting exhibitions within the shop’s walls.
La Joie de Vivre is the passion project of Cyril Dewavrin a bookstore owner for more than twenty years, and owner of Librairie La Comédie Humaine in the South of France.
“La Joie de Vivre is first and foremost a place of rendez-vous for all to celebrate all kind of arts, literature and reading,” said Dewavrin. “By combining books, bakery and art exhibitions in a friendly Paris-inspired atmosphere, we are offering busy New Yorkers an opportunity to put down their phones, stimulate the senses, read and relax.”
Those who can’t make the shop’s opening hours, Monday-Saturday 10 a.m. -2 p.m. and 3 p.m.-7:30 p.m. can also shop the store’s books and gifts online.
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