Montegrappa
In 1912, the Austrian Edwige Hoffman founds, next to her compatriot, the engineer Heinrich Helm, who was in addition the technical director of the company "Manifattura Pennini d'oro per Stilographiche The Elmo Pen", a small factory dedicated to the production of gold nibs. The fledgling company was located in an old farm in Bassano del Grappa, a beautiful medieval town located in the province of Vicenza (Region of Veneto), northeast of Italy, famous, among other things, for its important craft tradition in the field of the goldsmith.
On this basis would arise the brand Montegrappa, renamed years later in honour of the beautiful rocky massif that dominates the landscape of the town, which welcomes its headquarters since their origin. A signature that began mostly selling their products to the multitude of soldiers who gathered in the area during the two world conflicts because of their strategic interest and its consequent condition of important theatre of operations, and that with the passing of time would evolve and reorient its market and end up becoming one of the leading exponents of luxury magnificence and exclusivity.
Since the distant years in which authors such as Ernest Hemingway, Francis Scott Fitzgerald or John Dos Passos filled this firm with praise and became loyal users of Montegrappa fountain pens, many have been the personalities of all areas captivated by the incomparable design and the magnificent features of their writing instruments, from Heads of State and politicians like Juan Carlos I of Spain, Hussein of Jordan, the Queen Sirikit of Thailand, The Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah of Brunei, John Paul II, Vladimir Putin, Silvio Berlusconi or Nicolas Sarkozy; to athletes like Michael Schumacher, Jean Alesi or Zinedine Zidane; as well as personalities from the world of literature, music and cinema such as Paulo Coelho, Quincy Jones, Michael Jackson, Sylvester Stallone or Antonio Banderas, to name only a few examples. An extensive list of celebrities who have succumbed to the incredible charm, the distinction and the refinement of the fountain pen Montegrappa, the highest incarnation of luxury in the field of writing instruments.
