Where can I purchase Pineider stationary over the web? The company is
Pineider 1774. It's Italian.  I would like to purcahse the whole line
of stationary.

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Request for Question Clarification by justaskscott-ga on 18 Jan 2003 13:33 PST

I have seen a reference to a store that might carry Pineider
stationary.  Unfortunately, it is closed on the weekend.  If no one
has answered the question by Monday, I will contact the store and see
whether they carry the whole line of Pineider stationery.

Two questions:

Are you looking for a store that delivers within the United States?

Do you mind if your purchase is over the phone rather than on the
Internet?  (It is possible that the complete information may not be
available on the Internet, but rather from a person at a store, or
perhaps from a print catalog.)

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Request for Question Clarification by justaskscott-ga on 19 Jan 2003 06:57 PST

I might not be able to check on Monday as I thought, but rather on
Tuesday, or as late as Wednesday if my schedule gets any busier. 
Perhaps another Researcher will find a source by then.

I imagine that the two questions I asked in my clarification request
would apply to other Researchers' work as well.

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Clarification of Question by jasont-ga on 20 Jan 2003 11:11 PST

Ordering via the phone would be fine. Delivery to the United States is
necessary. Ordering from a print catalogue is good for me.

I don't necessarily want to purchase the whole line of stationary. I
would like to replenish the Pineider supply I have.

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Request for Question Clarification by justaskscott-ga on 20 Jan 2003 19:35 PST

Are there particular Pineider stationery products that you want to be
sure that the supplier has?  (When I call, I would ask, in general,
whether the supplier has all or much of the line of Pineider
stationery, but also in particular, whether the supplier has the ones
that you want to replenish.)

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Request for Question Clarification by justaskscott-ga on 23 Jan 2003 10:02 PST

I have found a source for Pineider stationery.  According to the sales
manager, the company carries a large inventory -- hundreds of styles
-- of Pineider stationery.  You can request information and order by
phone or e-mail.  (The web site is new and focuses on other services
and products offered the company, so it does not have a catalog of
Pineider stationery, at least at this time.)  If you happen to be in
the Washington, DC area, there is a store you can visit (though I
forgot to ask whether any of the stationery is on display there).

I would have posted information about the company as an answer
already, except that I wanted to mention one detail to you first. 
This company does not have any white Pineider stationery.  The sales
manager noted that Pineider is known for color stationery, though it
did offer some white stationery in the past.

Given that this company carries color Pineider stationery, should I
post an answer?

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Clarification of Question by jasont-ga on 25 Jan 2003 15:05 PST

justaskscott-ga:

it looks like this store is what I'm looking for.

Please post the answer.

Hello jasont-ga,

The company (and store) is called Distinctive Bookbinding.  Here is
the company's web site:

Distinctive Bookbinding
http://www.distinctivebookbinding.com

There used to be Distinctive Bookbinding stores in Chicago and New
York -- indeed, I learned about the existence of the company from a
reference to the Chicago store, which at some point had "Pineider" in
its name.  But according to Distinctive Bookbinding's sales manager,
those stores no longer exist, and there is now only the store in
Washington, D.C.

Contact information for the headquarters and store is listed on the
following pages.  The sales manager indicated that you should use the
contact information on the first of these pages in order to inquire
about the particular Pineider stationery you want.

"Customer Service Welcomes Your Comments and Feedback!"
Distinctive Bookbinding
https://secure.presidential.com/db_customer_service.htm

"Locations"
Distinctive Bookbinding
http://www.distinctivebookbinding.com/db_locations.htm

In searching again this evening for Pineider stationery on Google, I
noticed a second possibility.  I have not contacted this store, but
you might want to do so as a comparison or alternative.

"Paper"
Alphabétique
http://www.alphabetiquechicago.com/paper.html

"About Us"
Alphabétique
http://www.alphabetiquechicago.com/about.html

I hope that this information is helpful.

- justaskscott-ga


Search terms used on Google:

pineider stationery
"distinctive bookbinding"

You could try them direct:

Pineider 
Contact Phone: 39 02 659 8647 
Contact Fax: 39 02 655 5883 
Via del Roseto 54 
Vallina, Florence, Italy

Hi, Jasont !

I'm posting this as a comment, since I cannot find anywhere on line
which supplies a full range, and I agree with denco-ga that contacting
them direct is probably your best bet, if Justaskscott-ga turns up a
blank. Pineider can be emailed as well, at:

info@pineider.com.it 

if you do not feel your Italian is up to a telephone conversation.


If you look at their website:

http://www.pineider.com

you will see that they now carry a wider range of merchandise that
just stationery.

I did find two on-line sources of part of the stationery range - but
remember, Pineider specialise in providing personal engraved
stationery to order from individuals, rather than just boxed sets.

ELuxury do advertise the Florentia Stationery Set but are currently
out of stock. If you email them they can probably advise as to when
they expect new supplies.A photo and link is available at:

http://presentpicker.com/ppp/rep/Pineider--Florntia--Stationery--Set.html



Other than that, Richard Jarvis of Penspiration.com as of March 2002
had some  papers at a heavily discounted price available from:


http://www.geocities.com/ajccarrier/Pen_Page.html

 email ajccarrier@yahoo.com

Don't go to the Penspiration site (unless you're interested in pens)
or the links will send you round in loops.

First page offers  lute or french horn designs, or Savannah. Click on
"Special items" or go to;

http://www.geocities.com/ajccarrier/specials.html

to find a range of Pineider notebooks:

"I also can get some neat pocket-sized notebooks by Pineider in
leather or cloth binding. The notebooks include ones for Art, Music,
Fishing, Hunting, Golf, Restaurants, Books (cloth binding only),
Recipies, Dates to Remember, Auctions, Gifts, My Budget (cloth only)
and Cocktails. The cloth bound ones are $8 plus $1.50 for shipping and
the leather ones are $10 plus $1.50 for shipping and handling. The
notebooks include spaces indicated by Italian and English for various
things pertaining to the subject matter listed on the cover. Neat
little books. See photos.

Go back to first page, and click on "More items for sale" to find
folios, compass star and two fish patterns.


There's a great article about Pineider by Corby Kummer in "The
Atlantic Monthly" May 2001 at:

http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/2001/05/kummer.htm

Some years ago he had bought some personalised Pineider stationery.

"Things had changed in Italy: not the beauty of the displays or the
correctness of the tailored salespeople but the vast choice of
typefaces I remembered being both bewildered and enchanted by. Now
there were just seven, a salesman told me, as he opened a large binder
of cardboard pages—the most popular and classic styles. I glanced at
the shaded and cursive and unornamented faces, both comforted and
vaguely disappointed that they included a version of my plain block
capitals. Wasn't anything else available? I asked.

Eventually the folio containing stationery ordered over several
decades appeared, accompanied by the man who had served most of the
customers whose paper it contained. Carlo Bertolaccini has sold
Pineider stationery in Rome for forty-four years. He looks something
like John Gielgud and speaks with a reserve that seems to cloak wit
and a deep understanding of human desires. The factory in Florence
might or might not be able to reproduce any style that caught my eye,
Bertolaccini told me; young people willing to apprentice themselves to
a skilled engraver are rare, and the lifetime artisans are retiring or
gone. The seven styles in the new book are typeset by computer, and
the dies are created by acid bath rather than incised by hand start to
finish—as every die was until five or so years ago. Hand-etched
"classico" dies are still offered as a higher-priced alternative to
typeset dies. But he couldn't guarantee that any of the remaining
artisans would be willing or able to etch a typeface long out of use."

search terms: "Pineider stationery"