Montblanc created this magnificent Skeleton Pen in homage to Georges Jean Raymond Pompidou (1962-1968) – French statesman, prime minister and 19th president (from 1969 until his death in 1974) of France under the fifth Republic.
His premiership and presidency were marked by the economic recovery and technical modernization of France, as well as the further development of European structures. Literary critic, teacher of literature and art connoisseur, Pompidou was the founder of the Parisian Museum of Modern Art – Center Pompidou, as well as the compiler of an anthology of French poetry.
The French President founded the Centre Pompidou as a home for art, music, literature, and cultural expression. At the beginning of the 1970s, Georges Pompidou had a dream: he wanted to create a public institute in the heart of Paris which would offer a home to modern French art as well as to literature, theatre and other forms of cultural expressions. However Pompidou would not live to see the opening of the establishment he had initiated: the Centre Pompidou on the Rue Beaubourg opened its doors for the first time in 1977 after six years of construction and three years after the death of the man who had given it his name. By the way, there is a unique panorama over Paris from the upper floors, which can be accessed from the external escalators.
It is a special honour for Montblanc to dedicate an exclusive series of writing instruments to the founder of the Centre Pompidou: the Limited Edition Fountain Pen – recalling the year of the opening of the Centre Pompidou, strictly limited to 77 pieces.
Limited Edition 77
Inspired by the striking architecture of the Centre Pompidou, the Limited Edition Fountain Pen is made of delicately skeletonised 18K solid white gold which surrounds the transparent barrel and cap. The clip, also formed of white gold and crowned with a radiant blue sapphire, recalls the exterior of the Paris cultural centre.
10 small diamonds adorn the head ring, cap ring and cone of the writing instrument, while the Montblanc star made of mother-of-pearl graces the head of the cap.
This extraordinary Limited Edition with a rhodium-plated 18K gold nib, is engraved with a portrait of Georges Pompidou, dedicated to one of the greatest representatives of the French cultural nation whose heritage has continued to live in the heart of Paris since 1977.
Launch 2006
Limitation:
Skeleton Fountain Pen 77
Fountain Pen
