All the colors of the rainbow and more shine brightly in the shop this Pride Month. John’s antique color studies, exercises, and color wheels find new life in decoupage pieces, notebooks, pads, postcards, and a 1000-piece jigsaw puzzle. Create your own multicolored magic with Choosing Keeping’s watercolor palettes from Japan and Elam’s handmade paper sketchbooks. Spin the color wheel here.
For over 20 years, Hugo Guinness has been exhibiting his distinctive artwork in John’s 2nd Street shop. A new series of linocuts in custom and vintage frames is available, along with his still life and oil portraits. Explore all of Hugo’s unique creativity here.
Since 1840, Cereria Introna has been fooling the eye with their mouth-watering food and drink candles made from natural paraffin wax with pure cotton wicks. Our favorites are back in stock, along with new seafood platters, tarts, flans, bottled beers, a very convincing martini, and more. Browse our menu for these delectable, guilt-free treats.
Flags fly this week to celebrate Flag Day. Ephemera from antique postcards and felted flags, sometimes called "tobacciana," as they were often included with tobacco products in the late 19th century, decorate trays, plates, and coasters. Glass charms get star treatment, too.
John’s love for the seaside takes shape in his ship-themed decoupage designs. Sailboats, clipper ships, and steamers are among the many seafaring vessels in his collection of 18th and 19th-century imagery, all reimagined under glass by artisans in our NYC studio. Drop anchor here and explore.
John has carved a niche in antique woodwork and stocked the shop with unique creations from around the world. Early 20th-century tramp art, carved from layered scraps of wood, meticulously notched and stacked into geometric, chip-carved patterns, includes boxes, frames, mirrors, tables, storage, and even a bird cage. These pieces reflect the tramp art movement’s resourcefulness and quiet devotion to ornament, transforming humble materials into personal objects.
The simple beauty of an early 20th-century artist’s oil study on board inspires many of John’s decoupage creations, such as trays, plates, vases, cake pedestals, and light switch covers.
Dreaming in Color: Here’s a sneak peek at the John Derian Colouring Book: Flowers. Available for pre-order where books are sold. Available on our site, and in our shops on June 30th, 2026.
This year marks the 30th anniversary of John’s first shop in New York. A few years after starting his one-man decoupage design business in Boston, he moved to New York in the early 1990s. As orders increased, he hired a team of artisans to craft his motifs and opened his first shop in 1995 on 2nd Street in the East Village... a quiet block that would soon become his creative hub.
