Origin One goes Carbon Zero! The Writing pad is dead. As dead as a doornail. Killed by an overdose of digital domination and an increasing apathy of our young to pick up the fountain pen (or pencil, or whatever). Emails regularly come with ominous warnings about using paper, that lead
AP Limited Editions, where the pinnacle is another pen-peak. Inked Happiness: AP Limited Editions won the first coveted Pen of the Year Award in 2016, which is about a decade since you began your journey. How did you manage to achieve this near impossible feat, especially in view of the
Japanese Pens – delights to behold, wonders of craftsmanship. Legend has it that it was a friend returning from England, who first had shown a fountain pen to Kyugoro Sakata. Sakata was an engineer by profession and had immediately taken up the challenge of manufacturing fountain pens in Japan. The
The Platinum Preppy is a contradiction of sorts. Preppy (literally a pupil of an expensive prep school, the emphasis being on the neatness of their dresses, not necessarily in proportion with their content) and Platinum (the material and the fountain pen maker – known for their consistent adherence to quality,
