About us

…Young like the river after the rain, ancient like its course…

Grifos has been present in the world of writing with its artisans for more than thirty years: we artistically craft silver, combining it with other refined materials such as fossilised wood or high-fashion salmon leather, and transform them into sophisticated writing instruments.

In our workshop located in Piedmont, we skilfully craft fountain pens, rollerball pens, ballpoint pens and pencils of all kinds. We are able to create various types of customisation based on the customer's design or our own project, combining our proven experience with the personal taste of the buyer. Our pens are embellished with refined guilloché engraving, a technique that has its roots in the ancient art of master craftsman Fabergé.

The distinctive feature of our work is the combination of craftsmanship with modern technologies, which allows us to cater to different types of customers: we can be flexible, satisfying both requests for precious items for collectors and large quantities of pens for medium and large series.

One of our objectives is to provide customers with a technically perfect writing instrument: all stages of production are subject to quality control, from the processing of the material to the packaging of the item to be shipped.

We pay particular attention to customer care – we can quickly replace or supplement parts damaged by wear and tear or accidental events. We are not only artisans in creating pens, but also in providing high-quality personalised customer service – always ready to respond to all your requests and needs.

GRIFOS LEGEND

Anno Mille... Northern Italy is an integral part of the Holy Roman Empire and a land of battles and bloody raids. Only a few places preserve, within their vaults of history and art, the seeds of a future, though still distant, Renaissance: the abbeys of Saint Benedict.

1979… Nearly a millennium has passed since one of those treasures seemed to have been erased; restoration work on the paving of an eighteenth-century church brings to light, incredibly intact, the tesserae of an extraordinary polychrome mosaic. In the nearby middle school, another school year is drawing to a close. It is a sunny afternoon in May when the news of the discovery suddenly arrives: for us youngsters it is a burst of energy that wakes us from the torpor of our Latin lesson! Seizing the opportunity at once, the teacher gives us a living history lesson and so, incredibly, twenty curious adolescents are among the first, after centuries, to tread upon those tiny tesserae. The sight is breathtaking: two rampant griffins with half-closed eyes and proud, shrewd expressions… In the pleasant coolness of those walls, our wide eyes observe the two griffins facing one another, not in hostility but almost in complicity: alius ex alio….one another, one for the other… 

2000… The thousandth anniversary of the creation of that dreamlike Romanesque mosaic arrives; the twenty enchanted adolescents have grown up and life, taking its course, has scattered each of them along a different path.

Through this collection of precious writing instruments, themselves capable of conveying history, art and dreams, I intend to pay tribute to the boys we were then and, above all, to those men who made writing an art and handed it down to us through the centuries. Therefore….alius ex alio…..one another….to go beyond, together, all of us.
One page after another, of course.

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