Albertine Press

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Albertine Press

Gift shop · Wellington Harrington

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1309 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA 02139

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Letterpress wedding invitations, custom stationery, and unique gifts  

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1309 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA 02139 Get directions

albertinepress.com
@albertinepress

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1309 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA 02139 Get directions

+1 617 945 5519
albertinepress.com
@albertinepress

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"Goosefish Press is an award-winning letterpress studio specializing in custom design and printing of wedding invitations and stationery. They print in-house on antique letterpress equipment. They don't hold regular business hours, so it may help to call head for an appointment (617) 728-2822. That said, you'll likely find them open during South End Open Studios and First Fridays." - Adam&Co.

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Joie Chen

Google
Albertine Press created the Save the Dates, formal invitations, all day-of paper goods, and personalized thank-you stationery for our September 2024 wedding. Working with Shelley and Jen at AP was perhaps my favourite part of the entire wedding planning process. If you are a stationery lover, paper nerd, and letterpress devotee, there is no better team out there. The first time I met with Shelley, the owner and lead designer, I came in with some wild ideas, and I could immediately tell that she understood what I wanted — she was sketching in her notepad immediately and already full of ideas. At every step of the way, the designs came to me even better than I expected and were realized to perfection. Jen was super efficient at coordinating all of the aspects of production and everything was delivered in a timely fashion. Plus, Jen did the gorgeous calligraphy for our invitations and day-of place cards! Every member of the Albertine Press team is just so, so talented and so excellent to work with. If you care about the quality of your wedding stationery, working with Albertine Press is the best decision you could possibly make.

lauren smith

Google
As a stationery designer myself, I only trust my work to really capable and talented letterpress printers- Albertine Press is it! Their team is so helpful, knowledgeable, and produces high-quality letterpress work. Cannot recommend them enough! A perfect place for wedding invitations, cards, and all other custom stationery! I just printed my own Save The Dates, Invitations, and Shower Invitations with them and it was not only easy but fun!! Thank you Shelley and Jen!

Max Krupnick

Google
Always have a great selection of postcards, stationary, and writing utensils. Selection rotates frequently so there’s always something new to look at!

Erica Fox

Google
I worked with Albertine Press for letterpress menus, place cards, and custom stationary for my recent small wedding. Both Shelley and Jen were incredible to work with. They were so easy to communicate with along every step of the process over email as well as in person. After I inquired about their offerings, they sent me some samples in the mail which was very helpful! I met with Shelley in-person and she was such a dream to work with. She showed me more samples and even drew some ideas by hand for the menus. The final products were so beautiful and exactly what I was hoping for. Albertine Press does beautiful work and I look forward to working with them in the future for more custom stationery!

Anna Williams

Google
Albertine Press designed and printed our save the dates, invitations and the day-of materials for our wedding. The team - Shelley and Jen - were wonderful to work with! They listened to our (sometimes half-formed) ideas and created beautiful work. They were easy to communicate with, got back to us quickly and seamlessly incorporated our feedback. We were very happy with the results and received many compliments from our guests! Thank you Shelley and Jen!

Marisa Escolar

Google
This store is a true gem, with high quality products of all kinds -- delicious soaps, gorgeous cards, everything chosen with the greatest of care. i got a surprise gift box for my kiddo, and was delighted with the products I received. I'm very grateful for their well-designed website, since I live too far away to pop in as much as I would like.

Elizabeth McCabe

Google
We worked with Albertine press to design our save the dates, wedding invitation suite, place cards, menus, and thank you stationary. Our experience working with Shelley and Jen was absolutely fantastic. Everything they made and designed for us was beautiful, and exceeded my hopes and vision for what I wanted. I hope to continue to work with Albertine press in the future for any paper/stationary needs I may have. I would highly recommend working with them!

Emily Trueblood

Google
We worked with Albertine press - Shelley and Jen - to design our save the dates, wedding invitation suite, day of paper goods and thank you stationary, and it was the most wonderful experience. We knew that we wanted to incorporate illustrations by my husband's father, and Shelley was very accommodating and helped us design exactly what we wanted. Jen was also very communicative and helpful throughout the entire process. I would highly recommend working with Albertine Press on any and every aspect of your wedding paper suite - I hope to work with them again in the future and will certainly visit the shop of all of my card and paper good needs!
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Monica L.

Yelp
really cute letterpress store. They have all sorts of knickknacks, artsy items, stationary, and gifts. A great place to support small artists while finding your next holiday gifts. I ended up spending so much time looking through the store since at every pass you somehow find something else new!
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Maria D.

Yelp
Very cute gift shop! Unique stuff and stationary. Received great help from the staff in picking out some gifts.
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Pam S.

Yelp
I tell you what... the amount of Stationery Stores I went into while at home this past summer was AMAZING! from one side of town to the other! lol Albertine Press was on my list as it was on the official #stationerystoreday2023. Well-organized shop with lots of gift-buying options not only stationery - culinary items, teas, jams, kitchen aprons, plenty of children's activity gifts, and OMG the Boston unique items!! I wish I could've stacked up on all the things for my home here. The notecards I ABSOLUTELY loved here were the Boston ones with the skyline. In fact, on my next trip home I will need to get more. Oh, and the owners' daughter rang me up too! She was so adorable I can see she is getting prepared to love the business as her Mom does. Respectfully Reviewed.
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Susan H.

Yelp
When I'm traveling I love to go to stationery stores to check out pens (preferably fountain pens), paper, stickers, stationery accessories, and such. Albertine Press was not quite what I had in mind, and it was much smaller than I was expecting, but they had a small selection of things I like and I did find a cute birthday card for my father. The staff was nice, and the store was clean and organized. I would recommend it.
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Lisa D.

Yelp
The name of this press and shop of course earns many points in this Proustian's book (Note: no relation to Albertine bookstore in NY). I have never been here in person, but I received as gift a cute set of Brooklyn letterpress cards printed on really good stock from here that work well for notes to out-of-towners. I was also very impressed with the online store (a selection of which is on Etsy) offering reasonably priced cards; cute desk set products like magnetic cat bookmarks, cat sticky tabs, etc.; a wine passport journal; and much more for others' niche interests. This is a great local yet global small business to support by shopping for gifts for the bibliophiles and writers in your life amid the pandemic. Bonus points for the fact that nearly all of Albertine Press's work is printed on eco-friendly 100% cotton paper. "The first thing to be done was to read Albertine's letter." -Proust "The pictorial multiplicity of Albertine evolves gradually into a plastic and moral multiplicity. Albertine is not a solid object. She is unknowable." -Anne Carson, "The Albertine Workout" "I wanted to get to the Grand Trianon. I thought if I moved under its arches, allowed myself the vistas which open out from its gardens, I would be able to retrieve myself." -Jacqueline Rose, "Albertine"

Pamela R.

Yelp
We were very excited when we found and hired Albertine, the cost and quality of printing seemed to be perfect for us.....HOWEVER, the design process was frustrating - we had to repeat or draw the layout to get an accurate copy of our edits. The worst was the final bill as 1/3rd more than the estimate, for fewer products, with NO warning of the increases of cost during the process and for services they said were included. Nice people - but use another company, this spoiled what should have been a wonderful part of our wedding.
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JZ S.

Yelp
The best little stationary and gift store in the area! It's so easy to shop locally when you have a store like this...cards, stationary, candles, jewelry, soaps, odds and ends and little nuggets everywhere! Plus, all of the staff are SUPER nice!!! The only thing they don't do is gift wrap, which is a shame. And they could add some Hanukkah wrapping paper to their gift wrap offerings. But great otherwise! Thank you for being in the neighborhood!!
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Claire A.

Yelp
I have been a fan of Albertine Press for years - it is my go-to for unique cards and small gifts - so I had to reach out when it came time to look at options for wedding invitations. Shelley was so easy to work with, even in the middle of pandemic! She outlined several options within our budget and after an initial (and very thorough!) Zoom call, we landed on a beautiful design. We were really appreciative of Shelley's guidance, particularly when we had to change our original wedding plans. Shelley gave us some great ideas on how to communicate everything in our invitation-turned-announcement. And after a few rounds of feedback, we ended up with announcements and thank you cards that we couldn't be happier with! Our family and friends loved them too. I would highly recommend Shelley and her team. Albertine is worth every penny!
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Megan C.

Yelp
As an avid snail mail fan and crafter this place is a wonderful addition to the neighborhood. They have cute cards, stationary, letter writing supplies, small gifts, and a neat space for teaching classes. I hope to fit a class into my schedule one of these days and they offer everything from bookbinding to letterpress! The staff are knowledgeable and considerate, I can't wait to stop in again!
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Jeff D.

Yelp
Really creative, unique, and thoughtful stationery from independent creators. Attentive and supportive staff to boot; I'll definitely be back!
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Sarah T.

Yelp
Shelley and her team at Albertine were the absolute BEST to work with for our invitation suite for our wedding. After visiting a number of stationary providers in Boston, we landed on Albertine. We appreciated their commitment to the art of letterpress, their design aesthetic matched ours, and Shelley was a joy to work with! From start to finish, Shelley helped us with the designs (we ended up going kind of whimsical for our save the dates, and a little more elegant for our invitations), took feedback super well, and was so creative! She drew the CUTEST drawing of our French Bulldog that we included in our suite, and it made our invitations stand out among all the generic ones. In addition, she provided us with designs for cocktail napkins, which was excellent! Overall, a great experience with Albertine, and I highly recommend. Pics coming soon!
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Daphne B.

Yelp
Albertine Press designed and printed the most exquisite letterpress invitations for our garden wedding. We had a very small ceremony with just immediate family, so the "invitations" were really just formal announcements of the event (i.e. we knew who was coming). But we wanted them to be special and set the tone for the event, which was rustic yet elegant. I asked for a nature theme and suggested that the text be surrounded by trees, just as we would be in our garden. Shelley (the owner) ran with the idea and drew up the loveliest design -- soft sage-colored trees surrounding charcoal text on cream paper. The paper and printing were of the finest quality, and she had her staff hand-line lovely envelopes to match. Our guests were all very impressed (my mother said, "I hope the food and drinks are as sumptuous as the invitations!"), and so were we.