We may not always agree on shopping destinations (COS again Zoë?), but the one place that gets both of our consumerist juices flowing is paper porn paradise R.S.V.P. This small, wood-lined shop in Mitte is like the stationary cupboard of our nerdiest fantasies, stacked high with beautifully designed notebooks, pens and accessories from around the world. R.S.V.P recalls a time before paperless offices and the digitisation of everything, when the written word really mattered, and while there is an online shop, it’s little substitute for actually being there – feeling the oversized desk calendars heavy in your hands, or enjoying the satisfying click of a Japanese fountain pen. Ooh, I just felt a little shiver.
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god yes Faye would love the place! you can’t NOT buy something there as everything is beautiful! Rymans could learn a thing or two;-)
That shop looks magical to me as well …and of course Faye would love it as well….its sado really but if i have a few spare mins i call into rymans and browse and maybe buy something that might be useful sometime!!
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I know, so magical! I’ve been coveting that pencil sharpener for ages too — isn’t its heft very satisfying?
Agreed. I’ve no idea now why we didn’t buy it, and lots of nice pencils to sharpen with it!