Greeting Cards - New Arrival

Text on the reverse side: From a tiny acorn grows a mighty oak, symbolising the Vanderbilt family's extraordinary rise from modest beginnings to g...

Text on the reverse side: In the fashionable seaside resort of Newport, America's wealthiest families built extravagant summer homes known as ‘cot...

Text on the reverse side: The Breakers takes its name from the Atlantic waves crashing against the rocks below its historic Newport estate. Comple...

Text on the reverse side: In 1843, Charles Dickens stayed at Easthorpe Hall on the Castle Howard estate for several weeks. He later identified his...

Text on the reverse side: A contemporary Roman/Greek god adaptation of a Japanese woodblock print dating 1814. The Japanese word for frog is “kaer...

Text on the reverse side: As clothing production developed, so did the tools behind it. Needles, thimbles and shears became increasingly refined, ...

Text on the reverse side: A contemporary The Breakers adaptation of a Japanese woodblock print dating 1814. The Japanese word for frog is “kaeru”,...

Text on the reverse side: Castle Howard was begun in 1699 for Charles Howard, the 3rd Earl of Carlisle. Designed by dramatist-turned-architect Joh...

Text on the reverse side: Shakespeare’s As You Like It, Act II, gives us this simple expression of contentment with a place. Today, amid busy sche...

Text on the reverse side: First appearing in Shakespeare’s Hamlet around 1600, these words have travelled far beyond the stage. Today, the quotati...

Text on the reverse side: Before designing Castle Howard, Sir John Vanbrugh was better known as a playwright than an architect. Begun in 1699 and ...

Text on the reverse side: La première représentation d'un chapeau, découverte dans une peinture rupestre à Lussac-les-Châteaux, en France, remonte...

Text on the reverse side: Les nœuds papillon réversibles ont été conçus pour offrir deux motifs ou deux couleurs en un seul accessoire. Il suffisa...

Text on the reverse side: Après un apprentissage à Paris, Louis Vuitton ouvrit son propre atelier de fabrication de malles en 1854. La célèbre toi...

Text on the reverse side: En 1851, dans un atelier à Boston, Isaac Merritt Singer reçut une machine à coudre à réparer. Onze jours plus tard, il c...

Text on the reverse side: Un mannequin est une reproduction du torse utilisée pour ajuster les vêtements lors de leur conception ou confection. Ce...

Text on the reverse side: Les sacs à main à armature métallique ont une histoire étonnamment ancienne. Dès le XVe siècle, des fermoirs en métal ét...

Text on the reverse side: La principale différence entre un mannequin et un buste de couture réside dans la couche de mousse et de tissu qui recou...

Text on the reverse side: La mode de la silhouette en sablier atteignit son apogée à l’époque victorienne, lorsque des baleines en acier étaient u...

Text on the reverse side: Les bourses et les sacs à main ont toujours été à la fois une nécessité pratique et de véritables accessoires de mode, l...

Text on the reverse side: This celebrated lithograph presents Jane Avril, one of Montmartre’s most distinctive dancers. Lautrec emphasised her ecc...

Text on the reverse side: The architectural drawing on the desk recalls the ambitious planning behind The Breakers. Designed by Richard Morris Hun...

Text on the reverse side: The Breakers features an immense Great Hall rising through two storeys, richly decorated with marble, mosaics, gilding a...

Text on the reverse side: Lautrec’s first major poster commission made La Goulue, the Moulin Rouge’s most famous dancer, an icon of Belle Époque P...

Text on the reverse side: Divan Japonais depicts a fashionable Parisian café-concert, showing Jane Avril and Édouard Dujardin watching Yvette Guil...

Text on the reverse side: Jane Avril appears at the far left of this celebrated poster, which she commissioned to promote Mademoiselle Eglantine’s...

Text on the reverse side: Aristide Bruant reportedly insisted that Toulouse-Lautrec design the poster for his Ambassadeurs engagement. Using flat ...

Text on the reverse side: Created to advertise Aristide Bruant’s appearance at the Eldorado cabaret, Lautrec adapted his earlier Ambassadeurs desi...

Text on the reverse side: Designed during May Milton’s single season at the Moulin Rouge, Lautrec’s poster presents the English dancer as an arres...

Text on the reverse side: Known for her unusual, highly individual dancing style, Jane Avril became a defining figure of Montmartre entertainment....

Text on the reverse side: The Breakers contains an extraordinary forty-eight bedrooms for the Vanderbilt family and their household staff. At nigh...

Text on the reverse side: The Breakers is regarded as the finest surviving example of America's Gilded Age architecture. In 1994, it was designate...

Text on the reverse side: The Breakers occupies a commanding position on thirteen acres at Ochre Point, with cliffs overlooking the Atlantic to th...

Text on the reverse side: The Breakers was designed for luxurious summer living and entertaining, combining sea views, gardens, European craftsman...

Text on the reverse side: The two monumental carriage gates rise thirty feet above the driveway and weigh more than seven tons. Forming part of a ...

Text on the reverse side: A large summer gathering fills the lawn of The Breakers, with guests wearing pale dresses, straw hats and formal suits. ...