Contarini ballpoint pen

Description

Contarini ballpoint pen Bortoletti artistic foundry pays tribute to the Contarini palace with a pen a white patinated bronze ballpoint pen of great value.

Contarini ballpoint pen, inspired by the Contarini palace built in the 14th century as the residence of the Contarini nobles.

The famous Bovolo staircase was later added to the palace and named for its snail shell shape.

In Venetian dialect the snails are called bovoletti for this reason the Venetians called it scala del bovolo.

Bortoletti art masters inspired by this story designed the Contarini ballpoint pen project.

Venice’s centuries-old symbols and customs meet modern taste and find expression in the Contarini bronze pen.

It is from the careful search for symbols borne of collective memory that historical and modern design come together to give a pen rich in history and personality.

Historic and modern design come together in this elegant ballpoint pen.

The Bortoletti brothers inherited the secret of bronze casting from their father, refining their lost-wax microcasting processes to achieve the highest degree of finish.

Contarini ballpoint pen

The love of detail, the refinement of patinated bronze, handcrafted by Bortoletti artisans give life to objects rich in history and personality.

Withe bronze cannot be called a precious metal, it is a respectable material that has also always been used in art.

And an alloy composed of 80 parts copper and 20 parts zinc, it provides high breaking strength and is not subject to oxidation.

White bronze lends itself to the finest artistic workmanship; during the finishing process it is patinated and chiseled by hand.

The Contarini ballpoint pen is sold in an elegant quality packaging made of powder-colored cardboard with branded gold hot-stamped logo.