Turin, 07 th June 2018. After the success of the last edition, also this year the Turin Pen Show chooses the spaces of Officina della Scrittura to gather pen lovers and collectors from the whole world under the sign of Writing.
Saturday June 9 th , from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., the Museum of Sign and Writing by the historical Aurora Pens Manufacture will literally be invaded by collectors, dealers, calligraphers and connoisseurs willing to take part in the manifold guided tours and calligraphy demonstrations and obviously to purchase, sell, exchange pens and writing tools of all times and sorts!
Pen Shows are events linked to the world of the writing collectibles, born in the United States in order to put in contact all the pen lovers through the purchase/sale or exchanges of fountain pens,pencils and similar products.
The Turinese edition is born in 2012, as an Italian answer to the already existing European Pen Shows and to the Italian related fairs and exhibitions. The Turin Pen Show has always had a different goal compared to the other pen-exhibitions, paying particular attention to widen the experiences offered to the consumers and receiving for this high appreciation.
Many shops, associations and collectors have booked their own stand beside the two "institutional" tables of vintage pens by PennaMania and contemporary writing tools by Aurora.
The program will be enriched also by the co-operation of the Master Calligrapher Ernesto Casciato, giving calligraphy demonstrations and allowing the participants to try unusual writing tools, while the Chef of the Restaurant-Caffetteria L’Officina will delight everybody with a special pen-menu.
OFFICINA DELLA SCRITTURA
It is the first museum in the world entirely focused on Sign and Writing. It is a place showing, promoting and enhancing everything linked to the culture of writing and to human sign in general:
from rocky paintings to the new way of the contemporary communication.
Born from a dream by Cesare Verona, President of Aurora Pens, history of sign connoisseur and a renowned Italian collector of writing instruments, OFFICINA DELLA SCRITTURA is built inside an eighteenth-century ex-spinning mill in Strada Abbadia di Stura in Turin.
In the very same place, from 1943, the historical Company Aurora set its headquarters, becoming a prominent Italian brand, worldwide ambassador of the know-how, the elegance and the quality of the Made in Italy.