LEUCHTTURM1917 Drehgriffel Bauhaus Edition Ballpoint Pen Royal Blue and Red Rotring Technical Drawing plus elastic closure and fabric

plus elastic closure and fabric page marker

it can be layered without affecting dried paint already laid down

The first page of the book can be filled in with the years that the book covers

24g weight

may show minor imperfections

LEUCHTTURM1917 Drehgriffel Bauhaus Edition Ballpoint Pen Royal Blue and Red Rotring Technical Drawing plus elastic closure and fabricThis looks a bit like a mechanical pencil, but it's not. It's a ballpoint pen the Drehgriffel created by Leuchtturm1917 for Monocle. The design is distinctly retro, because it's a revival of a writing instrument that was around in the 1920s. As Bauhaus Director and pioneer of abstract art Wassily Kandinsky put it, 'Everything starts with a dot', and what better way to do this than with a pen? 'Drehgriffel' means 'twist stylus'. The hexagonal barrel is