Unusual Pens ✒Sexy Pens ✒Luxurious Pens + Cases & Rests! Tales of Holiday Shopping Pt.2

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To help describe each item we hope these color-codes will be useful:
Creative - green Classic - blue Eclectic - purple For the Collector - red
(Items marked with an asterisk* are Papier Plume exclusives)

Arbos little go-anywhere, delight-anyone French dog notebooks proving that there's an eyeglass frame for every face shape. Even your long-faced Weimaraner.
64 pages of lined 80gm recycled paper.

Let's go to the dogs!

Hey Santa...

Were you more nice that naughty this year?

"Red Candy " Series 100 fountain pen by Conway Stewart.
"Heel Obsession" pen rest by Jac Zagoory.

From the UK comes this special collection of lovely Conway Stewart Series 100 fountain pens, inspired by the writing instruments of the 1920s-30s, known as the Golden Age of fountain pens. Pearlescent resin strands are fused together to beautiful effect.
Below: Art Deco engraved nibs and fittings. Other available colours are the Grey Pearl (shown), Blood Orange, Lapis Blue, Starry Night, Emerald Green and Santa's personal favorite, Candy Red.

Right this way to Conway Stewart

Once upon a time, there was an octopus living in a pen store called Papier Plume. He was a pen rest/business card holder, and a very good one.

Late one afternoon as he was relaxing in the display case, something new was placed in his lap, a breathtaking fountain pen from Italy. Its name was the Visconti Torpedo.

It was love at first sight.

The octopus, so finely detailed down to the very last sucker, accompanied by his little fish buddy (or snack?) is part of the Jac Zagoory collection of solid pewter desk accessories.

The Visconti Torpedo fountain pen features a double power filling system, a unidirectional carbon body and palladium plated exoskeleton. Palladium Dreamtouch™ nib. Limited edition of 388.

Run away with the Torpedo!

Meet Mr. Octopus

Keeping in touch is a great excuse to bring out these clever little pens and Italian notecards. When posted The Indigo transforms into a perfectly compact writing instrument. Available as rollerballs or fountain pens, in a dizzying array of colors and patterns.

The Hummingbird pen rest also makes a lovely business card holder. From the Jac Zagoory collection of solid pewter desk accessories.

Single notecards are the quick, easy and delightful way to keep in touch. A take on the iconic Italian pattern, the colorful Bird Florentine is populated with birds and butterflies. The embellished single notecards are available in sizes medium and small (as shown). Also available: medium and small blue bordered foldovers , classic letter sets, and thank-you cards.

Introduction to Indigos

Hummingbirds for your words

Direct Flight to Bird Florentine

No, these pens did not escape from a Dr. Seuss book. They are born from the wild mind of Jean-Pierre Lepine, a 5th generation French pen-maker and Papier Plume's de-facto creative genius at-large.
These are black but these styles, like all his creations, come in dozens of bright colors and patterns including natural woods.

From top: The Indigo (rollerball or fountain pen), the Massai, the Samba (rollerball or fountain pen), the Zig-Zag, the San Marco, the Tibetan Prayer Wheel. All ballpoints take standard generic refills.

Available in a beautiful blizzard of resin colors, and rare woods - click the links for each style to see!

Above: The Hands-Tied-Up Monkey won't be writing anything, evil or otherwise. Solid pewter pen rest by Jac Zagoory, part of the Write No Evil series of 4 different monkey pen rests.

All the Pretty Pens. From lower left corner: San Marco, Indigo rollerball, Tibetan Prayer Wheel, Samba rollerball, Zig-Zag, Massai.
As mentioned, these all come in amazing selection of colours and rare woods.

Below: The Jean-Pierre Lepine boxes are just as fun as his pens!

To the surrealistic world of Jean-Pierre Lepine

What every pen-lover needs and secretly wants is a special place to store and/or carry their favorite pens.
Pen cases not only offer protection, they help prevent loss. When your pen has a case, that's where it tends to stay when you're not using it. A habit follows. It's either there, or in your hand.

Atelier de LaForêt is located deep in the forests of northern France, come these rich, enduring leather pen cases, handcrafted by master leather workers.

Available in 1-pen (large and small), 2-pen and 3-pen sizes as well as simple and convenient "Tulip" pen sleeves. All in jewel tones, earth, sea, and sky shades, as well as black and white.

Above: Esterbrook "Estie" in Honeycomb with large single pen case in Mustard and the green "Green Mamba" Aura fountain/rollerball pen by Cleo Skribent. Single pen case in Turquoise.

Atelier de Laforêt pen cabinets are built by hand, one-by-one, from sustainable woods. This craftsmanship, combined with clever details like angled handles and magnetic stops, become heirlooms to last generations. In the US they can only be found at Papier Plume.

Below: The suede-lined collector's pen cabinets are made in 22-pen or 11-pen configurations with exteriors are paneled in the same fine leather as the pen cases in many of the same colors.
Larger sizes are available, contact us for details.

This Way to Atelier de Laforêt

Single cards, foldovers, letter sets, and Thank-Yous in beautiful boxes and folders.
Finest card stock. Tastefully gilded. Lined envelopes.

Timeless and sigh-worthy; We have one of the best selections in the US.

KARTOS
Made in Tuscany, Kartos stationery is known for classic, finely detailed, vibrant designs highlighted in metallic gold, on creamy Fabriano paper. In addition to traditionally lined envelopes, Kartos single cards, notecards, and letter stationery sheets have a variant of the pattern printed on the card or sheets themselves.

The Italians are well known for the high quality papers, and Kartos wrapping paper is no exception. Designed to be reused, they are made in many patterns and print available.

Top: The traditional Italian Florentia pattern, a Renaissance classic. Available in stationery sheets and envelopes, single and fold-over notecard sets, memo pads, and wrapping paper.

Above, some Kartos patterns.

Clockwise, from top: Giglio red Fleur-de-Lis pattern stationery sheets and envelope set. with the Lilium gold Fleur-de-Lis pattern stationery sheets and envelopes set in the underneath. The Quadrilobo pattern single card set. The classic Florentia motif long single card se t atop a stationery sheet se t. The Cipro pattern in boxed fold-over notes with the medium single card set above. The Signoria medium single card set. Boxed Lilium foldovers underneath.

Get carried away to Kartos

ROSSI 1931
Since 1931 when Antonio Rossi founded the Florence based company, the Rossi family has made classic Italian stationery, ranging from the pure traditional Florentine pattern of the Renaissance era, to relatively modern patterns and motifs sourced from antique epherma. The fold-overs have simple gold or bright borders, and the single cards are of heavy cardstock with embossed borders and deckled edges, and of course the de rigueur lined envelopes.

Rossi's wrapping paper, like most made in Italy, is the same high quality and fine weight of their stationery paper and the Italians would never purposely tear it. Think of it more as a craft paper which can be used for covering presents, then reused. In the long run it becomes quite cost effect with much less waste.

Above: A classic vintage Rose pattern features single cards embossed to frame the sender's words. Deckled edges and lined envelopes complete the impression of classic elegance. In two sizes.
Other patterns in this style available are Antique Handwriting, Poppies, Sonata and more.

Rows of Rossi Notecards:
Starting at the bottom of the left column, moving up: Bird Florentine, Peacock, Violet Florentine, Peacock Initial Monogram Notecards.
Center row: Green Florentine, Traditional Florentine, Bird Florentine
Right row: Feathers, Green Florentine , Arabesque

The Road to Rossi

Below: Nothing so elegantly expresses gratitude than gold metallic script on a crisp, bordered foldover card. Traditional Florentine, Peacock, and Bird Florentine are only a few of the patterns.

All Rossi Thank-you, single cards and foldover sets come in beautiful boxes made of the same pattern.

That's all for now!
The next chapter of Tales of Holiday Shopping will feature wax seals, glass pens, and some fun surprises. You won't want to miss it!