“THIS book belongs to,” reads the frontispiece of the little red diary, followed by the words “Florence Wolfson,” scrawled in faded black ink.

Inside the worn leather cover, in brief, breathless dispatches written on gold-edged pages, the journal recorded five years of the life and times of a smart and headstrong New York teenager, a girl who loved Balzac, Central Park and male and female lovers with equal abandon The diary was a gift for her fourteenth birthday, on August 11, 1929, and she wrote a few lines faithfully, every day, until she turned 19. Then, like so many relics of time past, it was forgotten for more than half a century inside an old steamer trunk, plastered with vintage travel stickers that evoke the glamorous golden age of ocean liner voyages. The trunk in turn languished in the basement of 98 Riverside Drive until October 2003, when the management decided it was time to clear out the storage area.“ –"The New York Times”

Brought to you by The Ice Plant in collaboration with Shopsin's General Store, this charming, pint-sized and extremely well-designed diary, inspired by a 2006 story in “The New York Times,” lets you keep track of your life with just a few lines every day for five years. Each page of the diary is devoted to one day of the year and subdivided into five sections-so that as time goes by, past entries can be read as new ones are written. Clothbound in delicate, nubby pinstripes with a red ribbon bookmark, it is designed so that it can be started on any day of the year, even on a leap year. In the back of the diary are pages to record books read and places traveled. An ideal gift for sophisticated nostalgics, new parents, dreamers, schemers and plain old lovers of good design.

Contributor Bio: Shopsin, Tamara
Tamara Shopsin is a graphic designer and illustrator whose work has been featured in “The New York Times”, “Good”, “Time”, “Wired”, and “Newsweek”. She has designed book jackets for authors including Jorge Luis Borges, Charles Lindbergh, and Vladimir Nabokov. Two volumes of her drawings have been published under the titles “C est le Pied!” and “C est le Pied II”. In her spare time she creates and sells novelties and cracks eggs at her family s restaurant in New York, Shopsin s. She is currently a 2012 fellow with the nonprofit Code for America.

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