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A Note from Doveen
A fortune teller once looked at my palm and said, "Where are you going?"
"What do you mean?" I replied, assuming she meant metaphorically.
"You are traveling here and there and back and forth, and I've never seen someone travel so much in their early years." When I looked down at my palm, I could see she was right—lots and lots of little lines all joined together sealed my fate. I was living in the States then, and now I'm back full circle to Hong Kong, the city of my birth. I'm an American living in Hong Kong, married to a German photographer, whom I met in Russia where I was working in marketing for an American company. I've been very fortunate to live all over the world, mostly as a child with my journalist parents and later as a student in Paris and in Thailand working with Cambodian refugees.
In an attempt to create a cohesive collage of my life, I started Dove of the East just over four years ago and have been running to catch up ever since as our products expand their route, traveling on without me to the United States, Canada, England, Ecuador, Columbia, Hungary, Netherlands, Australia and many far corners of the world. Dove of the East now carries over 300 products that have incorporated many of the bits and pieces I've collected in my travels. The China, Russia, India and Japan Journey Collections and, most recently, The City Vintage Collections of Paris and Shanghai Vintage, include treasure boxes filled with amulets and charms, patterned 12" x 12" acid-free papers, velvet and brocade ribbons, metal and filigree embellishments as well as rub-ons and stickers.
I love to roam markets and beaches. As a result, I've managed to collect lots of shells, bowls, plates, tiny spoons, pieces of fabric and small packages that have colorful designs. My home and office are filled with vessels, which hold these memories and design inspirations. Each container is a keeper of a place, evoking the time, the smell, the people I met, with a scent of lacquer from a Burmese bowl or a whiff of cut pine from a hand-carved Russian box.
The most exciting part of my work is seeing what others create with my papers and meeting so many talented and creative people who are passionate about paper and crafts. The magic begins, when what is at first so personal for me, like incorporating my grandmother’s lace into a paper design, then becomes transformed by another person’s imagination and is used to tell their story. I am always awed and amazed by the times we live in that allow us to make our home in Hong Kong, produce our own designs in China and see customers enjoy them and use them in the US and around the world. I love what I’m doing and I hope the products will inspire others to use their imagination and creativity to express their own memories of the past and dreams of the future.
See you soon at LAINE’s! !!
Doveen Schecter
Dove of the East
Please write to me at info@doveoftheeast.com
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