For Montegrappa, praise comes no higher than that from pen connoisseurs. It is with unbridled joy that we have learned that Montegrappa has won three awards in Pen World’s Nineteenth Annual Readers’ Choice Awards competition – chosen by the very readers who represent the pinnacle of passion for fine writing implements.
Featured in the December 2012 issue of Pen World, the Brain Pen received two awards for Best Metal Mastery and Best Interpretation of a Theme. The Alchemist is the winner of the award for the Best Cultural Theme, for a subject inspired by a cultural or literary event.
Pen World’s Editor-in-Chief Laura Chandler and Associate Publisher Susan Bowen presented the awards in May to representatives of Kenro Industries at the Art Brown Pen Fair in New York City. The complete results of the 2013 Readers’ Choice Awards are revealed in the June issue of Pen World. The results also will be posted on Pen World’s website, www.penworld.com
A physical representation of Paulo Coelho’s modern classic and global bestseller, the Alchemist Pen embodies the spirit of the novel through the use of actual chemical elements as employed by alchemists throughout history. Its design incorporates a pocket clip in the form of a cartographer’s mathematical compass, while the cap and body, fashioned from precious metals, are hand-engraved with images that will strike a note with the novel’s tens of millions of readers. Designed with the full approval of the author, The Alchemist Pen conveys the magic of discovery and realisation.
For the Brain Pen, Montegrappa collaborated with renowned authority on cerebral matters than Dr. Richard Restack, M.D., the author of more than 20 books on the subject. Represents the complexities of the very organ it celebrates, the pen’s most basic structural elements act as a parallel to a human being’s body: the pen’s body is simple, while the top part of the pen is rich and elaborate, as in the brain itself.
Adorning the top of cap is a cross-section of the brain, based on an ancient illustration. The cap features an overlay made up of neurons, with the pocket clip representing the spinal cord. The clip has a spring-loaded mechanism and its tip is lacquered in red or black, to differentiate the fountain pen from the roller ball.
Both of these award-winning pens have been produced in limited editions.
For over 100 years, since 1912, Montegrappa has been manufacturing high-quality writing instruments in the same historic building in Bassano del Grappa, North East Italy.