Notebook - The Grand Tour illustrated

Stationery Stories have helped Sloane Stationery create their own little Neo-Classical revival by illustrating books with typical Grand Tour mementos - obelisks, intaglios, alabaster busts and botanical illustrations. All of this on a patterned back drop. The inside covers are "marbled" to produce a gorgeous deep green malachite look.

Details

• Sloane Stationery X Stationery Stories
• The cover is made of thick textured paper in an elegant cream shade with gouache artwork printed on the inside and outside, front and back;
• the inner pages (72 sheets, so 144 pages) are cream colored with a polka dot pattern and gold edges.
• Printed at a family-owned paper mill in Florence, Italy. 
• 21,5cm x 14,5cm

The Grand Tour:

The 150-year period of Neo-Classical revival, during which every self-respecting English and European aristocrat would travel through Europe for their Classical education, is perhaps our favourite in modern history. The Grand Tours, which took place from the 17th- to the mid 19th Century, with mandatory stops in Paris, Venice, Rome, Florence, Naples and Sicily, were a time of enlightenment, historical quests and the start of enthusiasm for collecting. Today, historical revisionists view this more as plundering - Grand Tourists would happily help themselves to statues ("marbles"), paintings and all sorts of artefacts, filling their coffers as they travelled along. Items evoking scenes from Greek and Roman Antiquity were of particular interest.