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15/05/2025 | Admin
A design that doesn’t fade for a century and is synonymous with business – Elmo 02 by Montegrappa
Whether we consider him a visionary or a designer of timeless aesthetics, the first technical director and co-founder of Italy’s oldest fountain pen manufacturer, Heinrich “Elmo” Helm, knew what he was doing when he created the Elmo 02 pen a century ago.
15/05/2025 | Admin
Pininfarina Prima – the first among the instruments that write endlessly, without reloading or sharpening
Prima, as its name suggests, is the first among writing instruments that can write indefinitely, without refilling with ink, but also without the sharpening that pencils require.
15/05/2025 | Admin
hArt fountain pen month: The complete guide to refilling and maintaining the most prestigious writing instruments
“The pen is the language of the soul”, believes the author of Don Quixote, the great Miguel de Cervantes. This notion of his is particularly relevant today when we mainly use keyboards, physical or virtual, for writing, whose practical advantages cannot be disputed. But are there still things that cannot be expressed in any other way than with the good ‘old’ pen? The general answer boils down to signing important documents when the dignity of the moment and the authenticity of the signature can only be assured by a premium writing instrument, which for these reasons is inevitable in professional environments.
15/05/2025 | Admin
Why is writing by hand on paper important?
Whether we’re making a list of things to buy at the supermarket, filling out a form at the bank, taking notes from a meeting or coming up with a good idea, we write every day. And living in a world where time is precious, whatever we do, we tend to get done faster, realizing that every minute we can spare in the day is precious. There is a price we pay through stress and sacrifice of core values, and in this case, by forgetting the pleasure that writing brings, too.
15/05/2025 | Admin
Žarko Jakimovski’s exhibition at MASA is among the most significant cultural events in 2022
In the first episode of the new season, Macedonian Radio Television’s culture show “Vitraž” takes a look back at some of the most important cultural events in the country from the past year 2022. Among them is the major retrospective exhibition of maestro Žarko Jakimovski, which opened in October at the Art Gallery of the Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts (MASA). See more in the attached video
15/05/2025 | Admin
The ingenious Raphael an inspiration for the Pininfarina stylus collection
Raphael is the third mighty, majestic name that completes the Big Three of the High Renaissance, along with Leonardo and Michelangelo. He created a style of his own that is distinguished by the harmony and balance of its composition, the pure drawing and spiritual expression of its figures, often set in spaces of profound perspective. He masterfully applied harmonious color schemes, with an unsurpassed combination of saturated and transparent colors. In his painting, the spirit of the High Renaissance reaches full expression in the glory of classical harmony and ideal beauty.
15/05/2025 | Admin
The fountain pen – a gift with precious added value
A premium writing instrument needs no special occasion to demonstrate its value as a gift choice. We all write, and anyone would be grateful to own such an attractive item as a fountain pen that will delight them functionally and aesthetically for many years.
15/05/2025 | Admin
How to invest in art wisely?
We will begin this text with an illustrative example. When in 1989 the 29-year-old stockbroker Robert Tibbles bought the recently graduated artist Damien Hirst’s work “The Body“, which consisted of a medicine cabinet, for £600, his colleagues and friends who bought cars and expensive watches mocked him, assuring him that he had been robbed and should return the artwork, i.e. ask for his money back. But Tibbles stayed true to his instincts. In 2020, he sold the work, “The Body“, at auction for £1.2 million.
15/05/2025 | Admin
Expertise in excellence in writing instruments
Pen aficionados trace the origins of the notion of writing instruments as objects of art to the first Italian fountain pen manufacturer, Montegrappa. The family-owned company from Bassano del Grappa has earned this reputation by continually pushing the creative boundaries in the design of its products while embracing new technologies that allow for the realization of artistic imagination without compromising the mechanical, functional brilliance of the writing instrument.
15/05/2025 | Admin
The pen, a source of knowledge and wisdom
The great Vladimir Nabokov (“Lolita“) in his 1962 novel “Pale Fire“ analyzed two methods of creation. One takes place exclusively in the mind, while the other involves writing with pen on paper. Nabokov calls the first method agony, in which “the brain is soon enclosed in a steel cap of pain.” And he explains the second method as his method of choice, writing that then “the hand supports the thought, the abstract battle is concretely fought, and thus it physically guides the phrase toward the light through the inky maze”
