Nine Museum Collections. A Gagosian Show. A $140 Print.
Made the cut
Lily Stockman has paintings in the Hirshhorn, MOCA LA, and ICA Miami, among nine museum permanent collections.
Her 2024 Paris show was at Le Corbusier’s foundation. Gagosian Athens exhibited her in 2023. The LA Philharmonic commissioned her.
That is the CV behind the person who designed a $140 framed woodblock print.
We scored the Block Shop Textiles Arches Woodblock Print across four dimensions. WOW hit 9 out of 10.
What WOW 9 Means for This Print
WOW measures uniqueness and discovery factor, weighted at 35% of our final score. A 9 means the provenance chain is verifiable, layered, and nearly impossible for a casual shopper to find on their own.
The Arches print stacks three production chains that do not normally intersect at this price.
The pattern itself draws from Art Deco arcades and movie palaces near Block Shop’s downtown Los Angeles studio. Lily Stockman’s geometric vocabulary, informed by Jean Puiforcat’s Art Deco silverwork and Sol LeWitt’s wall drawings, gets carved into sisam wood blocks in Bagru.
Fifth-generation Chhipa artisans stamp each sheet by hand using natural black dye. The paper is handmade from recycled textile scraps by a woman-run printing and papermaking studio in Jaipur, a zero-waste process.
Then Simply Framed builds a museum-quality shadowbox in maple from North Carolina with UV plexiglass.
Gallery painter. Generational artisan family. Zero-waste handmade paper. Three continents of production, one frame, $140.
That combination is why WOW scored 9.
What We Verified
We traced 12 claims through six sources.
The product page confirmed 5th-generation master printers in Jaipur, cotton rag paper from textile production scraps, the Art Deco arcade inspiration, the Simply Framed shadowbox with North Carolina maple, and hanging hardware included in every frame.
The Block Shop about page confirmed the founding date (2013), carved wooden blocks used in Jaipur, and 5% of profits invested in community initiatives in India and LA.
The stockists page listed 22 retailers including the Hammer Museum Store, Heath Ceramics, and Mociun.
The press page documented 14 features across NYT Style Magazine, Vogue, Architectural Digest, Elle Decor, Dwell, The Strategist, Martha Stewart, and Domino.
The Quality Edit published a full editorial review in February 2026 confirming that Block Shop textiles hold quality after a decade of washing.
Zero product-level reviews exist for the Arches print specifically. We applied the Brand Trust Protocol: 14 press features and 22 design stockists including two museum stores provided the institutional validation.
Confidence scored 60, which translates to a Trust score of 6. That is our lowest dimension for this product, and we publish it because transparency is the point.
Who This Print Is For
We mapped the Arches print to five gift relationships.
The strongest match is the friend who reads design press and knows the difference between a poster and a print. She browses Heath Ceramics and Sight Unseen.
She may already own Block Shop scarves but has not discovered they make framed art.
The Art Deco geometry designed by a Gagosian-exhibited painter, printed by generational artisans on recycled cotton paper, is the kind of layered provenance she will text to three people.
For a housewarming gift, the Arches print works because it arrives ready to hang. Shadowbox frame, wall bumpers, hanging hardware, nails included.
A Quality Edit reviewer’s Block Shop collection started when a best friend brought napkins to her Echo Park housewarming in 2016. That single gift became a decade of collecting.
The print enters a home the same way, except framed.
The print also fits a child shopping for a mom with strong opinions about walls, a close friend who usually leads on taste (this reverses the dynamic), a colleague who earned something with substance, and a host building an intentional home.
In every case, the discovery layer does the work after the paper comes off.
What 8.1 Contains
GLOW scored 8. Tawny handmade paper with crisp black geometry. Deckle edges floated inside the shadowbox frame, visible all the way around, read as museum-grade.
That paper color is not a design choice. It is a byproduct of the cotton rag material.
MOMENT scored 8. The shadowbox has weight (maple and plexiglass), implying intent. It hangs in under five minutes. Handmade paper texture invites touch through the glass.
Three weeks later, a dinner guest notices and asks about it.
TRUST scored 6, our lowest, because no customer has reviewed this specific print anywhere online.
WOW scored 9 and carries 35% of the weight. The composite lands at 8.1, which cleared our 8.0 minimum.
Art prints under $200 fall into two camps. Mass-market reproductions carry no story behind the paper. Gallery prints from represented artists start at $500 and arrive unframed.
Block Shop occupies the gap. A painter with nine museum permanent collections designed the geometry. Fifth-generation artisans stamped it. A woman-run Jaipur studio made the paper from scraps. North Carolina maple holds the frame.
The wall art that clears our methodology tends to stack provenance chains like this.
Most do not.
