Weekend picks

Published on January 18, 2008

Designing sisters Penpunnee and Kesinee Horrungrueng think they have some cool things to offer when it comes to pens, markers notebooks, organisers, binders and other stationery. With a long-time passion for stationery, Penpunnee, 34, teamed up with her sister to open Goose in Siam Square four months ago. The store contains a unique collection of colourful writing materials in smart-minimalist style. The products are mostly made of fine paper and soft fabric imported from North America, Holland and France.

"I love bookbinding and stationery. I have collected plenty of beautiful papers that I bought during my journey in many countries," says Penpunnee. "We use fine fabrics from North America and Europe, because they have a good quality and a tight surface."

At the heart of Goose's design is a marriage of function and design. Most products come in simple patterns, there are also some collections featuring graphic designs. They come in the shades of pink, sky blue, orange, red, green, purple, brown, grey and white. The products include scrapbooks, photo albums, notebooks, organisers, files, binders, stationery, storage boxes and magic markers.

"Our target market is shoppers who love products with cool designs. We want to produce more than ordinary supplies, so our creations focus on function and smart designs. Some items can be turned into innovative decor items and gifts," says Penpunnee

Beyond the sister's own innovative creations, Goose imports Acme Studio's collections of attractive pens featuring designs by such people as architect Frank Lloyd Wright, as well as designers Todd Falkowsky, Rod Dyer and Jerry Leibowitz.

Goose also has a selection of antique brass seals, imported from the US, featuring animals, flowers, messages and symbols. Goose encourages shoppers to show off their imaginations with cute stickers for scrapbooks imported from Canada. Also available are leather storage boxes and pretty dolls imported from France as well as a line of beautiful wrapping papers featuring graphic designs from the US.

Goose is also opening a new branch on Siam Discovery Centre soon. 

Artful pens

This collection of Acme Studio pens features Nancy Wolff's green "Dogs" and Morris Lapidus' pink-and-black "Circle" at Bt2,780 each. "Crossword" is a multi-function tool, that serves as a pen, orange highlighter, clutch pencil and PDA stylus (Bt1, 570).

File it away

A colourful creation of stationary for your office, here is a refined magazine file in grey-brown (Bt760) and a line of dotted binders in shades of sky blue and grey, white and red and green and brown (Bt365 and Bt520).

Binders

A range of magnetic-clasp binders and notebooks comes in yellow and pink (Bt255), along with a pink organiser (Bt585) and a small organiser (Bt385).

Memories

Keep your beautiful photographs in these attractive scrapbooks featuring dot designs. Prices are Bt269 and Bt345.

Magic markers

A colourful container of 40 jumbo magic markers or a box of 100 fine markers is Bt439.\

In the box

Solid-coloured storage boxes come in purple or green (Bt320 and Bt385). A polka-dotted spiral-bound notepad is Bt145.

Seal of approval

Imported from the US, these brass seals feature messages and animals, including a butterfly and a heart (priced at  Bt625, Bt725 and Bt815). There is also a box of rubber stamps and ink pads, with butterfly designs (Bt1,290).

Pattarawadee Saengmanee