A new, Italian-made pen uses classroom ambience and apple motifs to give teachers a meaningful and lasting token of thanks.
Although the tradition of giving apples to
teachers may have died down in recent years, the fruit remains a popular
motif for all kinds of trinkets and tchotchkes given at occasions like
end-of-term, graduation and National Teachers’ Days. Now, an
Italianmaker of luxury pens has gone right to the core of the matter,
developing a gift item rich with apple symbolism and a timeless
classroom look.
“The Best Teacher in the World” is the
inscription on a box shaped like a hand-bound book. Inside is a pen that
not only offers the writing pleasure expected from Venetian handcraft,
it even uses a silhouette that was popular in classrooms across Italy
morethan eighty years ago. For Giuseppe Aquila, C.E.O. of Montegrappa,
the Teacher’s Pen is a return to the company’s roots: “When Montegrappa
started production more than acentury ago, schools and universities were
a very valuable source of business.”
