As fellow print ephemera lovers and self-professed stationery nerds at It’s Nice That, we’ve been itching to interview the store’s co-founders and graphic designers, Neal Whittington and Mark Smith, about their exquisitely curated collection for quite some time. And what better time to catch up with PresentAndCorrect than the recent release of their very first book: Paper Trails: Pre-war tourist maps from Japan.
Over on the site this week, Ellis Tree chats to Neal about the story of Present & Correct to date, tracing his habits of collecting and archiving all the way back to a childhood spent carefully putting away scrapbooks of sugar sachets, napkins, postcards and coasters, his final major project at art school (a paper concept store called… Present & Correct), to their joint travels across the world today, foraging for original vintage stationery to curate the shop’s stocks from over 18 different countries.
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