A hand-stitched leather notebook cover by Jules Cairon for Calepino. The cover comes with a ruled Calepino notebook ‘Coltesse’. [ Continue reading ]

The third Curated gift I’ve selected is in line with the first two, inspired by my love to travel. Almost a year ago I received a package. It was a little gift from Fabrice, a young man from Nantes, France, who’d started his own business… [ Continue reading ]

Calepino, the lovely little French notebook company, released a special series of notebooks in collaboration with the graphic and typographic studio from Nantes called La Casse. 'Alteration', as the collaboration is named, is a pack of 3 notebooks, made using manuel letterpress printing.  [ Continue reading ]

Last week we received a lovely package with some small notebooks, pens and pencils from Calepino. We love stationary, but are are always very picky which one to use. Years back we started with Moleskine, then moved a level up with Rhodia (also made in France) and we're now very attached to the Midori notebooks. But we can't leave these small books un-noted. In their nice boxes, with rounded corners, robust cover and practical dimensions, they're simply beautiful. 'The Calepino pocket book was designed to be carried anywhere. [ Continue reading ]