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Pen and Paper

“Wow, you use a fountain pen!?”⁠⁠In our writing community, there is a shared understanding of why we love pens and paper so much. The combination of the beautiful and the haptic: the colour of ink...

35 Years!

September 2022 marks 35 years of Laywine's. It is hard to imagine that when I first saw the shops in London selling nothing but organizers, and seeing customers queued up outside, that the result...

Common Modern

When we first saw Common Modern's products in Paris in January of 2020, we fell in love immediately. Their vibrant and modern approach to stationery was unlike anything we'd seen and the ethos of s...

LAMY Safari Pricing Updates

As of February 1st, our prices for the LAMY Safari and AL-Star fountain pens will drop. And here’s why...

A New Brand

For those of you who know are frequent visitors to the store, you may have noticed that over the past year a new logo has appeared on top of our word mark. Inspired by the heraldic shields of past,...

31 Years Later, Another, Virtual, Store

After opening our store in Yorkville in 1987, we have been cautious about venturing into new territory, preferring instead to focus on the customers in front of us. A few years ago, we started to r...