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Capturing the flavour of finely wrought Renaissance-style leather bindings, Paperblanks Midnight Steel Address Book pays homage to the craft of delicate gold tooling, originally introduced to Europe via the flourishing trade routes to the East. The timeless beauty of an antique leather binding is brought into the present on the cover of this deep blue book.

Our Agra journal cover is named for Agra, India, where the Taj Mahal is located. It reproduces a photograph by Gérard Degeorge of one of the Taj Mahal's iconic marble flowers. To carve into marble is to commit to perfection. Any mistake meant the whole slab had to be discarded. Each of these marbled flowers is its own masterwork.

Our Blue Velvet journal design is inspired by a piece of a 15th-century velvet dalmatic. It is decorated in brocaded gilt metal thread with a seven-lobed shield, an artichoke-like botanical shape and tiny floral patterns. Creating a velvet design such as this would have been a painstaking procedure, making this a luxury fabric during the Renaissance.

The Taj Mahal is renowned not just for its soaring symmetry and the breathtaking precision of its construction, but also for the floral forms carved in marble that adorn it. A photograph of one of these iconic flowers is reproduced for our Lahori journal, named for Ustad Ahmad Lahori, who is said to have been the grand mausoleum's chief architect.

In our Your Move journal, we feature a classical character from children's literature drawn by artist Tim Bowers. With his timeless use of colour and line, Bowers captures the charm of iconic characters from folk and fairy tales. One is never too old or too young to enjoy playtime and the company of legendary characters.