Clothbound in delicate pinstripes with a red ribbon bookmark, the
diary is designed so that it can be started on any day of the year, even
on a leap year!
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.
