Sand, salt air, a boardwalk going somewhere — four small holidays in an envelope.
A day at the beach is one of summer's plainest pleasures, and these four stamps, issued in booklets of 20, are built to send a little of it through the mail. The scenes are the ones most of us know: sandcastle architects at work, beachcombers hunting sea glass, gulls wheeling overhead, cyclists gliding along the boardwalk with the salt air rushing past. Art director Derry Noyes drew on her own summer trips to New England beaches. “These little snapshots are reminiscent of those experiences,” she says, “a break from busy lives and demands throughout the year.” She was drawn to the “fresh, bold, spontaneity” of Gregory Manchess's oil-on-board paintings, which stay legible at a scale no larger than a stamp. “He captures the essence of the subject, even at a very small scale,” she says.
Four stamps that smell faintly of sunscreen.
PERFECT FOR: summer postcards, holiday thank-you notes, journal pages, gift enclosures for a beach-house weekend, and a coastal collection kept right by the door.
