ELLEN PRAGUE, THE PAPER SHOP
Owner of The Paper Shop in Winter Park, Florida, Ellen Prague has been in the stationery business for more than 30 years. Her love for beautiful paper, however, goes back much further than that. Here, the former New Yorker waxes poetic about vintage stamps, Jackie Kennedy and the fancy 5th Avenue store that inspired her own boutique’s name.
When did your interest in the epistolary world begin?
Watching my mother write thank you notes and letters on her beautiful pale blue stationery was my first glimpse of the [Read more…]
PARK AVENUE’S PAPER PURVEYOR
The Paper Shop owner Ellen Prague Sees Park Avenue Businesses and Her Customers Grow Together Park Avenue’s Paper Purveyor
By Leslie O’Shaughnessy
Winter Park Magazine, October 2011
The Paper Shop owner Ellen Prague Sees Park Avenue Businesses and Her Customers Grow Together On the north corner of Park and Swoope Avenues sits The Paper Shop, one of the longest singularly owned and continuously operated retailers on Park Avenue. After strolling past an old copper kettle bursting with impatiens, [Read more…]