Visconti
Visconti s.r.l. |
Via Dell'Osservatorio, 120 |
50141 Firenze FI Italy Customer Service: US Telephone 800.VISCONTI Web Site: www.visconti.it Founded in 1988 by pen collectors Dante Del Vecchio and Luigi Poli, Visconti began making pens in Florence, Italy, in 1988. The company is named in honour of the Viscount who owns the location of their main office, a 15th Century Tuscan villa.
They wanted to make pens of celluloid. At the time, it was a material that was getting more difficult to find. Celluloid is not make from petroleum products, rather it is a natural product the result of cellulose and camphor that is worked together with alcohol.
The company is known for a number of pen developments. One is their famous "Travelling Ink Pot", created in 1996, and allowing pens to be filled anywhere, any time.
Their styles have roots to the history and culture of Italy. The Visconti pens pay tribute to a range of art, archaeology, philosophy, mathematics, literature, history or current events of note.
The use of celluloid, i.e. "gold for the pen specialists", is one of the distinctions of a Visconti pen.
Visconti pens have been selected for such history-making events as the signing the NATO-Russia Summit on May 28, 2002, which marked the end of the cold war, and as a present for the twenty-five signatories of the European Constitution in 2005.
I am visiting the company and its factory this September 2008 and look forward to provided an indepth review of the company when I return.
They have a great web site... well designed and with plenty of information on their company and the various lines of pens.
CANADA L.S.F. Trading Ltd. Tel. 001.905.2642034 Fax 001.905.8591989
UNITED STATES Fine Writing Inc. 300-2C Route 17 South Tel. 1-800 Visconti 001.973.7739 Fax 001.973.7739091
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In 1988 Visconti issued the Classic Edition, beautiful celluloid pens with 14 Kt gold nibs, piston filled.
The great big black pen, the Opera.
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