I share with our Overlord a love of not only statistics, but stationary. There's something very pretty and pristine about stationary. The bright colours, the difined edges; the juxta-positioning of wood and plastic; paper and metal. The organised geometrics of the material and the shop layouts. I love going into a shop and finding a stationary area, and oogling it for ages and maybe going away with a few fancy coloured pens.
Which leads me onto changing taste in browsing. I once loved to spend ages wandering around CD shops; then it was DVDs I loved to browse, then there's the stationary but I most love to browse book shops, which is probably something most people like to do but it's a fairly new thing for me. Photography books are my new favourite browse item.
Muiji? love the japanese simplicity of the stationary there!
ReplyDeleteHave to suss that out.
ReplyDeleteMe too! Oh, you'll love Muji, it's a mecca for stationary fanciers. My husband says the same. The colours, textures, shapes, neat little stacks of paper, good rubbers, the paints etc. Ohhh, love it love it. Imagine owning a stationary shop? Heaven!
ReplyDeleteOH Milan fucked up, looks like your image was hotlinked tut tut tut.
ReplyDeleteWhat does hotlinked mean? Have to fix that.
ReplyDeleteMuji? Milan, let's make a date to go in there one evening. I want to watch the steam come out of your ears when you walk in the door :)
ReplyDeleteSometimes I think that's a universal thing. I went through my CD and DVD buying phase years ago and now it is stationary and books. Weird.