Astier de Villatte Villa Medici Notebooks

These are rather gorgeous:

“The Villa Médicis notebooks by Astier de Villatte are printed with beguiling photographs from the palace gardens.In 1803, Napoléon Bonaparte moved his exclusive French Academy to Rome’s storied Villa Medici. Since then, the Italian Renaissance villa that overlooks the ancient city has housed generations of creative minds, including Jean-­Auguste­-Dominique Ingres, Claude Debussy, and Balthus, who served as the villa’s director for some time. Now French ceramics maker Astier de Villatte has launched a series of letterpress notebooks with gold-­edged pages in tribute to the palace’s vast and enchanting gardens. The covers, rendered in a kaleidoscope of saturated colors, are printed with photographs of the property. One cover features a panorama of the gardens, lined with stone-­faced Dacian warriors and Colbert’s statues, while the other depicts the whimsical Carré des Niobides, a vignette in a hidden garden where ancient statuary is surrounded by flowering acanthus.Villa Médicis notebook; $27. astierdevillatte.com

Source: Astier de Villatte Partners with the French Academy at the Villa Medici for a Collection of Dreamy Notebooks : Architectural Digest

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