For most legacy luxury brands, the challenge is to be accessible, especially to younger buyers and new customers. It is a challenge that Germany-headquartered Montblanc, the makers of fine writing instruments, travel accessories and watches, is rising to by rolling out pieces with an accent on colour and functional design. It’s about how much you interact, about why people should …
The Montblanc Ferrari Stilema SP3 Limited Edition 599 can balance on its base, and looks more like a blade than a pen. On a Zoom call, Flavio Manzoni, Ferrari’s chief design officer, says, “Together we wanted to imagine an object that was normative, not only in terms of shape, but also in terms of new technical solutions at the core …
A few days back, the fountain pen lovers’ group on Reddit woke up to this. But that half a million pounds apparently fetched only about 180 “luxury fountain pens from high-end makers like Mont Blanc and Philippe Patak ”? With a fountain pen gliding on paper made for fountain pens, writing is even more pleasurable. For some strange reason, though, …
