CARAN D'ACHE Collection Privée Mario Botta Limited Edition Fountain Pen 275/2005

Description

CARAN D'ACHE Collection Privée Mario Botta Limited Edition Fountain Pen
Ref. 1609.481
Year: 2005
Limited Edition: 275/2005
Designed by architect Mario Botta, with his signature on the clip
Genuine peacock feather with magnetic attachment to the top of the cap
Silver-plated and then rhodium-plated
Converter filling
Rhodium coated 18k – 750 Medium (M) gold nib
Elegant and simple Bauhaus design
Made in Switzerland
Disturb monotony
The Maison Caran d’Ache regularly pays tribute to architectural movements that had a strong influence on different eras.
In the tradition of its “Gotica” and “La Modernista” limited editions (both available on our eBay store), the designers of the Geneva Maison have developed a passion for the vision of one of the key names in internationally renowned Swiss architecture: Mario Botta.
The purist aesthetics of the Ticino-born architect’s universe naturally attract attention.
The essential shapes such as the circle, square and rectangle, along with his deep-felt attachment to nature, have placed Mario Botta’s creations in the footsteps of the Bauhaus style.
The “Mario Botta for Caran d’Ache” limited edition, designed in collaboration with the architect, is the result of highly refined work based on a cylindrical concept.
The writing instrument is thus encased inside a body shaped like a silver-plated, rhodium-coated and entirely polished tube.
Its generous proportions and rounded ends ensure that these pens are very easy to hold and comfortable to write with.
As exotic as it is symbolic, a veritable peacock feather tops the cap of this writing instrument, thus creating a newly original touch of adornment and reminder of the saying “Fine feathers make fine birds”.
Its magnetic attachment enables a variety of surprise effects, while subtly suggesting that the cylindrical body conceals a fountain pen (still known in French as stylo plume like the quill pens of yesteryear).
Mario Botta’s signature is engraved on the clip of the writing instrument.
The “Mario Botta for Caran d’Ache” limited edition comprises 2005 fountain pens in memory of the year it was created.
The concerned Caran d'Ache Collection Privée Mario Botta Limited Edition Fountain Pen was purchased in early 2007 from Kramer-Krieg pen shop in Lausanne, Switzerland.
Papers are stamped and filled out accordingly.
The pen comes in excellent preowned condition.
Please notice that there are few micro-scratches visible both on the section and on the barrel due to handling use.
All original boxes and papers are included.
Scarce and somehow iconic CdA Collection Privée model.
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