ABOUT US
Paper
Studio Press
Paper Studio Press celebrates the style and glamour of paper dolls at the peak of their popularity during Hollywood's Golden Era through gorgeous reproductions of highly collectible vintage paper doll books, as well as new titles designed to fit in with the paper dolls of yesterday. Owner, Jenny Taliadoros, works with a team of top-notch illustrators and graphic designers to create an ever growing selection of paper doll books featuring movie stars, fashions through the years and nostalgic characters.
Printed in the USA, in Farmington, Maine, our books are the old-fashioned style, with dolls and clothes to be cut out. Most books measure 9 1/2 x 11 1/2 inches and contain 8 pages of fashions plus star bio, fashion essay or history of paper dolls.
In addition to our paperstudiopress.com website, and sister website paperdollreview.com, our books are available from specialty shops across the country including Dick's 5 and 10 in Branson, MO, Walmart Visitor Center in Bentonville, AR, The Doll Market in Jamestown, NC, The Denver Art Museum in Denver, CO, The Henry Ford in Dearborn, MI, and Larry Edmunds Bookshop in Hollywood, CA. Our paper dolls can also be found in catalogs for Betty's Attic, Dollmasters and The Good Old Days Store. We are very proud to have many of our classic star paper dolls in the Turner Classic Movies webstore, TCM Shop.
Jenny
Taliadoros Jenny Taliadoros
is the real woman behind scores of pretty paper dolls.
The publisher and founder of Paper Studio Press, she turned
a childhood passion into a business in 1991 and since then,
her thriving company has been responsible for the growing renaissance
of interest in paper dolls. Not only does Taliadoros head a
booming business that creates, publishes and markets paper doll
books by renowned artists for a niche market of passionate collectors,
but she also is the driving force behind the Original Paper
Doll Artists Guild, a quarterly magazine started in 1984 by
her mother, Judy M Johnson, a well known artist. In addition,
since 1999, she has co-edited Paperdoll Review magazine
with famed artist, Marilyn Henry. In addition to building the
subscriber base of the special interest magazines, Taliadoros
has also built a successful paper doll mail order and website
business under the same name.
In
2005, Taliadoros reached out to paper doll artists around the
world to compile a special book, Paper Doll Artists Gallery
with 22 original paper dolls by 22 artists, and in the process
launched her own publishing imprint, Paper Studio Press. The
interest among collectors was such that Taliadoros recognized
an opportunity to create and publish new, original paper doll
books by artists of today. She now has a stable of top artists
in the field that includes Tom Tierney, Marilyn Henry, David
Wolfe, Jim Howard, Brenda Sneathen Mattox, Norma Lu Meehan,
Judy M Johnson, Sandra Vanderpool, Bruce Patrick Jones, Eileen Rudisill Miller and Charlotte
Whatley. Since then, the small publishing house has grown to
encompass a catalog of over 140 titles. New projects are
constantly in the works at Paper Studio Press, ensuring a cavalcade
of paper dolls to be enjoyed for years to come. In a recent
issue of the OPDAG magazine, Paper Doll Studio, Taliadoros
featured original paper doll art she had arranged to be created
by students at the New York High School of Art and Design. Jenny
Taliadoros obviously believes paper dolls have a future as well
as a past.
Taliadoros’
publishing house began by restoring and reprinting rare and
coveted vintage paper doll books from the ‘40s and ‘50s.
The subjects included iconic stars such as Lana Turner, Bette
Davis, Ava Gardner and Rita Hayworth, among others. A paper
doll book of Marilyn Monroe was the first new project and it
was followed by a heavenly bevy of glamorous stars—Ginger
Rogers, Esther Williams, Jane Powell, Greta Garbo, Marlene Dietrich,
Rhonda Fleming, Doris Day, Debbie Reynolds, Carol Channing, Donna Reed, Joan Fontaine, Gene Tierney, Betty Hutton, Phyllis McGuire, Arlene Dahl,
Ida Lupino, Veronica Lake, Vera-Ellen, Patti Page, Connie Francis, and even the famous funny lady, Phyllis
Diller. In 2009, Taliadoros landed a contract with Paramount
Studios to produce a paper doll of the mega movie musical, Grease,
featuring Olivia Newton-John.
Taliadoros
enjoys small-town life in the mountains of Maine with her husband,
Chris. That lifestyle contrasts dramatically with her celebrity
licensing deals which entail travel to Hollywood, New York and
Las Vegas. Taliadoros confesses to being star struck and enjoys
her show business dealings that often lead to personal meetings
with stars who are thrilled to be immortalized as paper dolls.
One star-packed trip to Hollywood can encompass lunch with Rhonda
Fleming, dinner with Jane Withers and cocktails with Phyllis
Diller after taking meetings at Paramount Studios.
In addition to the glamour of old Hollywood, the Paper Studio Press catalog includes vintage fashion, historic figures and nostalgic characters including Nancy Drew, Anne of Green Gables. By spearheading
the revival of paper dolls as a hands-on, arts and crafts interest
in this age of hi-technology, Jenny Taliadoros is reminding
a time-pressured society to slow down and play paper dolls (perhaps
even more rewarding than smelling the roses). When covering
the 2009 International Paper Doll Convention held
in Las Vegas, a local newspaper reported, “Most of the
conventioneers here speak of a paper doll lull that lasted through
the '80s and '90s. Then, out of nowhere they say, a paper doll
momentum picked up a few years ago and blew the dust off old
collections while introducing several new ones. That's largely
thanks to Jenny Taliadoros who launched a paper doll publishing
company, Paper Studio Press, in 2005.”
To further her quest to generate renewed interest in paper dolls,
Taliadoros took part in the prestigious 2009 Fashion Conference
in Manhattan, sponsored by Initiatives in Art and Culture. The
audience was enthralled with her presentation of the charming
little world of paper dolls and the story of Paper Studio Press. In 2010, Bergdorf Goodman hosted a book signing for Paper Studio Press title, Four Famous Dandies, with artist Jim Howard and New York dandy Patrick McDonald.
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