Lamy reinvents everyday writing with models featuring minimalist, ergonomic design. Lamy fountain pens combine comfort, precision and modernity for a natural, fluid writing experience. Designed to last, these instruments combine aesthetic simplicity and performance, accompanying your notes, signatures and creations with style and efficiency. Enhance your writing experience with elegant cases or nibs for varying line thickness. The brand’s inks combine German quality with functional simplicity, ideal for all fountain pens. Each top-of-the-range ink offers excellent fluidity, quick drying and vivid colours.
The story behind the brand :
Originality, innovation and timelessness are the three words that spring to mind when we think of this German brand. Its founder has always shown imagination in the creation of his pieces, both in terms of technology and design.
It all began in 1930 when C. Josef Lamy, then aged 30, founded the Orthos Füllfederhalter-Fabrik after leaving his job as export manager at Parker. He registered his first patent for a piston system, which launched the brand. In 1948, he changed the company’s name to C. Josef Lamy GmbH. Other patents were subsequently filed for totally innovative pens.
His son Manfred took over the company in 1962. With a degree in economics, he focused his strategy on strong marketing and on the design of items, endowed with the same creative talent as his father. It has to be said that he knew how to surround himself with internationally renowned designers such as the Germans Gerd A. Müller, Wolfgang Fabian, Richard Sapper and the Swiss Franco Clivio. So it’s no coincidence that the brand has won several awards for the design of its pens, both nationally and internationally (the European Design Prize in 1988, the Design Prize of the FRG in 2004, several Good Design Awards from the Athenaeum in Chicago).
Today, the German brand is one of the most renowned fountain pen brands in the world. Some of its products created in the 60s are still just as popular today (Lamy 2000).
