Mr Stationery
c/o Mr Pinocchio
Oberdorfstrasse 3
8001 Zürich, Switzerland

While exploring Zürich's old town on our recent holiday, Mr Tweets and I were delighted to happen upon Mr Stationery. As you can see, he was very surprised to see us.

Mr Stationery is not a shopfront per se, but has nevertheless been given pride of place in this charming window display. (The shop was actually called Mr Pinocchio, which doesn't strictly fit the criteria of our eccentric enterprise, as it fails to directly personalise its product or service. Apologies, Mr Pinocchio.)

Closer inspection of Mr Stationery reveals that his ears double as note clips, his mouth rubs things out, his eyes hang notes from the fridge and his nose sharpens pencils.

Mr Stationery also answers to the names Monsieur Fourniture and Herr Schreibwaren.

Mr Tweets and I would like to have brought Mr Stationery/Monsieur Fourniture/Herr Schreibwaren home with us, but unfortunately the shop was closed, so he remains where he is. (There is almost certainly a joke in here about stationery/stationary but I'm afraid I can't work out the best way to phrase it.)

Comments

[Jim Davies]

I need to know more about the nose pencil sharpener. Or should I say taille-crayon de nez? Mr Jim

[Mr Blog]

In answer to your query, Mr Tweets has located a photo of Mr Stationery's pencil-sharpening nose in action:
http://twitpic.com/2opfka

as well as his fridge magnet eyeballs:
http://twitpic.com/2opfqd

[Jim Davies]

Call me Mr Impulsive, but I have to have one!

[Mr Blog]

Yours for a mere £7!
http://bit.ly/b1IgHP

[Jim Davies]

Ahh... good old Hawkin’s Bazaar. I could have guessed. Masters Davies & Davies drag me into the local branch at regular intervals. Indeed, they bought me the Mr Henry vacuum cleaner featured on the same page as Mr Stationery for my recent birthday. No crumbs on my keyboard. Nose siree.