About us
…Young as the river after the rain, ancient as its course…
Grifos brings its artisans to the world of writing: we work silver with artistry, pair it with refined materials such as fossil wood or high-fashion salmon leather, and turn it into elegant writing instruments.
- Sterling silver 925
- worked with artistry
- Workshop
- in Piedmont
- Made to order
- to your design or ours
The workshop
From raw material to pen
In our workshop in Piedmont we make fountain pens, rollerballs, ballpoints and pencils of every kind. We create custom pieces to the client’s design or to our own, combining our experience with the buyer’s taste.
Our pens are enhanced by guilloché engraving, a technique rooted in the art of the master Fabergé.
What we do
Our writing instruments
Fountain pens
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Rollerball pens
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Ballpoint pens
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Pencils
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Sterling silver 925 and natural materials
Silver is paired with fossil wood, salmon leather, stingray, horn, resins and briar.
Leather
Leather pens
Resins
Resin pens
Wood
Wooden pensFor collectors and companies
From the precious piece to the series
The hallmark of our work is the union of craftsmanship and modern technology, which lets us serve very different clients: from precious pieces for collectors to larger series of pens for companies.
Our values
A technically perfect pen
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Every stage is checked
Our goal is a technically perfect writing instrument: every stage of production is checked, from working the material to packing the pen that ships to you.
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We take care of those who write
We take particular care of our customers: we quickly replace or supplement parts worn by use or damaged in an accident. We are artisans not only in making pens, but also in taking care of those who write with them.
Origins
The legend of the griffins
The year 1000… Northern Italy is part of the Holy Roman Empire, a land of battles and raids. Only a few places keep, in their treasure chests of history and art, the seeds of a Renaissance still far off: the abbeys of Saint Benedict.
Almost a thousand years later
Alius ex alio, one for the other
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1979…
The rediscovered mosaic
Almost a thousand years later, the restoration of the floor of an eighteenth-century church brings to light, incredibly intact, the tiles of an extraordinary polychrome mosaic. In the nearby middle school, on a sunny May afternoon, the news arrives and wakes us from the drowsiness of our Latin lesson. The teacher turns it into a live history lesson: twenty curious kids are among the first, after centuries, to walk on those small tiles. Two rampant griffins, with half-closed eyes and a proud, shrewd expression, face each other not as enemies but almost as accomplices: alius ex alio, one for the other.
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2000…
The mosaic turns a thousand
The mosaic turns a thousand years old. The twenty spellbound kids have grown up, and life has taken each of them down a different road.
With this collection of precious writing instruments, themselves able to pass on history, art and dreams, I want to pay tribute to the kids we were and, above all, to the men who made writing an art and handed it down to us through the centuries. Alius ex alio: one with the other, to go further, together. One page after another, of course.
Maurizio Stura
The workshop in motion
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