Stipula is the Latin word for straw or small stick. A small stick is in fact what the Romans used to split in sign of acceptance of a commitment more than 2000 years ago. Stipula has been working side by side with Florentine craftsmen for more than thirty years, thus giving rise to an awesome blend of culture, art and tradition that obeys the heritage of Florence, the Renaissance city where Stipula operates.
Renzo Salvadori founded Stipula in the spring of 1973. The company used to produce gold and silver clasps and ornamental fittings for prestigious leather firms. In 1977 the company started focusing primarily on the manufacture of desk accessories and in 1982 began producing pens, first for other trademarks, but beginning in 1991, under its own newly registered trade name, Stipula. When Salvadori speaks about the relationship between contemporary and vintage in the company, he likes to use a metaphor: "Stipula has two souls: the grandchild soul and the grandfather one. The grandchild represents technology and is expressed by dynamism and an eagerness to look forward, but the grandfather, representing tradition, must temper the grandchild's ebullience".
The company has always been renowned for the accuracy in the choice of materials and for the aesthetic elegance of its products. Stipula continues to pledge everyday their commitment for quality and accuracy in the writing instruments they manufacture and the dedicated pursuit for aesthetic and technological solutions to meet the standards of the great tradition of the fountain pen.
