WHAT: Before “writing” meant banging out a few letters on a mobile phone — C U LATR — there was an art to expressing oneself. Part of the art was found in the beautifully crafted implements used to ...

Art Nouveau was all the rage at the turn of the 20th century, interpreted in art, architecture and decorative art, a style that was considered the height of modern design. It drew on the organic forms ...

Originally published by Jack Forster on Hodinkee. The notion of Montblanc as a watch manufacturer has now been around long enough that most of us have gotten used to the ide – I think, on that issue, ...

A black and white photograph pinned to a corkboard on the wall of Birmingham's Pen Museum shows one Fanny Philips sitting at a manual nib-making machine. On an average day, a woman such as Fanny would ...