Lamy
In 1930, C. Josef Lamy, former branch manager for an American writing pens manufacturer, would lay the foundations for the future Lamy brand with the founding of the Orthos fountain pen factory in the German city of Heidelberg. This company would experience strong expansion in the following decades and would mark a turning point in 1952, the year in which the Lamy 27 fountain pen was launched on the market, a pen that incorporated a novel feeding system called "Tintomatic", and in which, with it, produced the birth of Lamy as a brand of writing instruments.
However, if there is a specific moment that has marked the future of this company, it is, without a doubt, the year 1966, the date of launch of the legendary Lamy 2000 model by the young marketing director Manfred Lamy, who would embrace the postulates of the Bauhaus and would open a path that has lasted to this day. This is none other than that indicated by the Bauhaus maxim "form follows function."
Since then, Lamy fountain pens have managed to make a name for themselves in the sector and become synonymous with design and originality by dispensing with all superfluous accessories, innovating in the field of materials, adopting modern shapes, but subject to functionality, and focus, ultimately, on the practical value of fountain pens.
