Fountain Pen Stores In Paris?

[Calabria]

There may be a thread on this somewhere here, but does anybody have a recommendation of a fountain pen store (doesn't have to be big, sometimes the smaller ones are more interesting) in Paris for my upcoming trip?

[olivier78860]

Mora Stylos http://morastylos.com/ next to the Jardin du Luxembourg

Point Plume http://www.pointplume.com/ next to the Arc de Triomphe and the Champs Elysées

Styl'Honoré (no site) 1 rue du marché Saint Honoré, next to the Jardin des Tuileries and the Musée du Louvre.

 

Good hunting !

[pienaar]

They seem to be every where in France even in Auchan's supermarket LOL.

[Freddy]

There may be a thread on this somewhere here, but does anybody have a recommendation of a fountain pen store (doesn't have to be big, sometimes the smaller ones are more interesting) in Paris for my upcoming trip?

 

 

You received some very good recommendations..for your consideration..Glenn Marcus site..Pen Stores Europe at..

http://www.marcuslin...ns/stores2.html {scroll down to France}..and check out this small Tobacco Shop { I purchased

Montblanc 149 in 1973 and others three years later..still using thirty nine years<SMILE>}.... .

Lemaire, 59, Av. Victor Hugo-Paris..Enjoy your time in France..Safe journey..

 

Fred

None of lifes strings can last

So..I must be on my way..~George Harrison~

[Pfhorrest]

Opera Stylos (26 Boulevard Italiens) has a great selection and friendly staff.

[georges zaslavsky]

mora stylos is the best of the best, opera stylos has a friendly staff and styl honoré is good as well. Avoid point plume because the sales staff is very arrogant and soemwhat rude.

[olivier78860]

Point Plume are indeed not friendly (they are too used to selling high end pens to bling people, so when you come to buy a Waterman Edson, you're welcome as if you were buying a bic pen at a supermarket), but they have some rare stuff.

 

I forgot La Havane in Versailles, rue Hoche, Mr Thuillier is very friendly. www.alahavane.com

If you go to visit the castle, it's just 10 minutes on foot from the main entrance.

[Calabria]

Merci beaucoup. Great, thanks!!

[pw1224]

I managed to find some very usable fountain pens in grocery stores, little local stationary shops, book shops, and Gibert Jeune's downstairs section. These are not places to find high-end pens but they are places to find true low-to-mid-range usable pens.

[dashdotdot]

I managed to find some very usable fountain pens in grocery stores, little local stationary shops, book shops, and Gibert Jeune's downstairs section. These are not places to find high-end pens but they are places to find true low-to-mid-range usable pens.

 

Gibert has high end pens (and inks) upstairs.

 

Also further on up the Blvd St. Michel ( a few blocks towards Luxembourg) there's another small pen shop.

Also in the 5th there is Skripta, rue du Cardnal Lemoine.

[dashdotdot]

Also, Wagram Stylos avenue Wagram, place de l'étoile. I've never bought from them but I have pressed my nose up against the window at times.

[Mille]

Can you buy vintage pens in Paris. I would love to come home with another P51.

[olivier78860]

Finding vintage pens in Paris is another story. You might find some at Mora Stylos but they are extremely expensive (yet in perfect condition); otherwise, I can't think of any B&M store.

 

 

EDIT : Just so you know, Mora Stylos is closed until the 20th of July, but online orders will be processed. They are refurbishing the boutique. And if it's like last year, they'll be closed between the 25th of July and the 25th of August for holidays.

Edited July 9, 2012 by olivier78860

[Mille]

Finding vintage pens in Paris is another story. You might find some at Mora Stylos but they are extremely expensive (yet in perfect condition); otherwise, I can't think of any B&M store.

 

 

EDIT : Just so you know, Mora Stylos is closed until the 20th of July, but online orders will be processed. They are refurbishing the boutique. And if it's like last year, they'll be closed between the 25th of July and the 25th of August for holidays.

 

Well, at about the same you posted your reply I took these photos:

 

But it was a nice parisian walk.

[Mille]

Finding vintage pens in Paris is another story. You might find some at Mora Stylos but they are extremely expensive (yet in perfect condition); otherwise, I can't think of any B&M store.

 

 

EDIT : Just so you know, Mora Stylos is closed until the 20th of July, but online orders will be processed. They are refurbishing the boutique. And if it's like last year, they'll be closed between the 25th of July and the 25th of August for holidays.

 

Well, hmmm, perhaps it was best for all concerned the store was closed. I might have told them one, two and even a few things in plain Swedish about ripping people off. The prices are at least twice as much, probably much more for the more expensive pens, than what I would pay for one of the pens, (only looked at the vintage ones), in full functional order.

 

I say that for the vintage teal colored P51 I would pay $100. And then it has to be absolutely perfect. (Yes, I know that is more than half the list price.)

 

What would YOU pay for their vintage pens at http://morastylos.com/.

[Cygne]

I am to Paris in mid-November, and I'd truly love nothing more than to return to Toronto with, perhaps, an ink, if not a pen, to commemorate my first experience of Ville Lumiere.

 

(To finally travel to Paris is to fulfill a lifelong dream, for me.)

This thread is helpful to that end, but I wonder if there are other recommendations to be made (since the last post was, now, more than four years ago), and if there are quintessentially French inks I ought look for (by preference, those makes or, perhaps, colours rare in Canada, those only available in France).

 

Might you be able to advise me, wise members of FPN? Is mine a naive ambition, to find an ink that makes me think, always, of what's said to be the world's most beautiful city?

Edited October 31, 2016 by Cygne