Italian Fountain Pens
Talking of Italy is to speak of one of the greatest cradles of art and design. A nation rich in history but able to look with determination towards the future, that moves between classicism and the more ground-breaking, and that has known how to convert "Made in Italy" into a global symbol of elegance, refinement and style.
In the field of manufacturing fountain pens, except in cases such as the company Montegrappa, who began in 1912, or Aurora, founded in 1919 by a from Turin, we find in many occasions brands of very recent creation, but that, in spite of having a short history, have succeeded in placing Italy on the cusp of top makers of writing instruments.
In regard to this, the great revelation occurred in the 1980s of the twentieth century, when they were born as Delta renowned signatures (1982), Marlen - created the same year as the previous one - or Florentine Visconti (1988), which, as said before, only have a few decades of life. Nonetheless, due to the excellent quality of its products and raw materials in used in them, its exclusivity and, above all, the great originality of their designs, they have known how to become relevant in the market of the fountain pen.
From then until now, without neglecting its origins and traditional skills in the work of artisans, their main sign of identity has been, however, the experimentation with new forms and materials. The constant search for innovation that has given great results such as the introduction, in 1994, the carbon fibre and titanium by Delta in his collection "Extrema"; or the recent invention (2012), by the same company, singular nib "fusion", characterized by the increase of the fluidity of the ink thanks to its innovative combination of materials and its original assembly; not to mention milestones in design like the fountain pen "Hastil" by Aurora, created in 1970 by the Architect Marco Zanuso, a magnificent piece that can boast of being exposed in the showcases of the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) in New York.
