Of course, the Times once knew all about fountain pens, but here is an up-date:
And on...Around 40 people had gathered on a recent weekday evening in SoHo at the Lamy store, a 600-square-foot ground-floor showcase of contemporary Germanic pen design. Packed around a table with notepads and test pens, the group, ethnically diverse but mostly men, lacked the slick appearance you expect of customers at a luxury boutique.
In fact, it quickly became clear that these were nerds. Twenty-first-century pen nerds.
Article mentions the Lamy store in New York, FPH, Goulet Pens, Sheaffer (in a passing way...did you know that Sylvia Plath used a Sheaffer?), Nathan Tardiff, and SBRE Brown.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/26/s...8yNlKlnaPQODeY
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