2010: David Oscarson Lilies
This year marked the 10th anniversary of David Oscarson hot enamel and guilloche writing instruments, and the David Oscarson Lilies collection commemorated that event. It also garnered Oscarson his first Readers' Choice Award. The David Oscarson Lilies collection has three levels of guilloche engraving and six colors of translucent and opaque hard enamel. It harkens to the Bible quote from the Book of Luke: “Consider the lilies...and celebrates the natural, virtuous, and pure.
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2011: Visconti Golden Man HRH
One of the most exceptional archeological discoveries of the 20th century was the Golden Man, the remains of a Scythian warrior adorned with 4,000 pieces of gold discovered in present-day Kazakhstan. The Visconti Golden Man HRH won Pen of the Year honors in 2011 for its stunning red lacquer body patterned with gold and inset with 250 white diamonds.
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2012: David Oscarson Harlequin
Inspired by Art Deco aesthetics and the Harlequin character from Italian commedia dell arte, the David Oscarson Harlequin collection features three layers of guilloche engraving and five translucent and opaque hard enamel colors matched to 18 karat gold or sterling silver appointments with three inset diamonds in the pen body.
davidoscarson.com
2013: Graf von Faber-Castell Pen of the Year Oakwood
For the first time, Germany's Graf von Faber-Castell wins Pen of the Year for its own Pen of the Year series of writing instruments. Graf von Faber Castell Pen of the Year: 2012 Oak Wood features a barrel of 1,700-year-old German wetlands oak matched to hand-applied gold leafing using a squirrel-hair brush.
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2014: S.T. Dupont Orient Express
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Show Your Summer Style
The newest Visconti Homo Sapiens, Iris Garden, is a tribute to the beautiful irises that bloom each spring in Florence, Italy's Iris Garden.
Good Made Better Keeps Getting Better
SUZANNE C. LEE tests Dan Keller's wood and metal reading and writing accessories and finds her childhood dream desk come to fruition.
Layers of Talent: River City Pen Company
With his skills in design and eye for details, Rich Paul crafts pens that are as beautiful as they are functional.
Fathoming the Unfathomable
The new Kanilea Pen Co. Blue Moana fountain pen and Mau Loa cap band are inspired by the ocean's depths and universal interconnectivity.
Truphae: Flexibility Is Key
This young pen shop is writing a new chapter in retail pen sales by finding unique ways to foster community.
"Winter Counts:" Transforming Non-fiction into Fiction
Creative writing typically blends what we know and experience with what we invent and imagine.
Swivodex, Sailors, and the Plastic Revolution: An Overview of Dip-less Desk Sets, Part V
The end of World War II ushered in a new era, with plastics technology opening the way to better and less costly products of all sorts.
The Mystery of the Purloined Parkers
What do G-men, mobsters, and tampons have in common? The two most epic fountain pen heists in history.
The Other Articles of Impeachment
\"Hear ye! Hear ye! Hear ye! All persons are commanded to keep silent, on pain of imprisonment...\"
The Road to Recovery
A recent trip to Wajima, Japan, by TACCIA's Shu-Jen Lin shows tragedy in the present but hope for the future.
