I felt relaxed and serene as soon as I started to write with the ST Dupont Line D / Ligne D / Elysee (more on the naming later...). It's a very stylish pen, as befits a historic Parisian atelier, of course, but you could almost mistake it for... boring. Like a gentleman in a plain … Continue reading The quietly wonderful ST Dupont Line D / Elysee
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A survivor of a more refined age: the Waterman Carene
The Carene and I have passed like ships in the night a few times over the years — which is ironic, because it's a pen designed to evoke the curves of a speedboat, and the word itself means 'hull' in French. I dismissed the Carene for a few reasons. Sometimes I lumped Waterman in with … Continue reading A survivor of a more refined age: the Waterman Carene
