Dupont NY 5TH AVE limited edition 2007 fountain pen

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Europe represented an inexhaustible source of inspiration for the New World right up until the 1940s. It embodied the elegance and avant-garde of culture, architecture and fashion.

During the 30s and 40s, the American aristocracy, who held the reins of power, money and good taste, and whose chosen territory was the Upper East Side and 5th Avenue, commissioned works from the most talented of French interior decorators. Jean-Michel Franck and Emilio Terry decorated the private apartments and offices of the New York elite, inspiring disciples such as the famous American interior designer, Dorothy Draper.

Breaking away from the pure lines of Art Deco, these artists created a sophisticated universe that combined Spanish baroque from the 16th century, 18th century French classicism, and the period’s surrealism. Intertwined curlicues, arabesques, and symbolic motifs restored the decorative arts’ glorious reputation. Mirrors, bronze, marble and lacquer were the precious and shimmering materials used for this ornamental architecture.

S.T.Dupont has created the New York 5th Avenue limited edition to pay tribute to both the one-and-only city of New York and to these famous interior decorators, ambassadors of the French Art de Vivre. The Dupont brothers, just like other French artists, architectures and couturiers, were naturally considered amongst these ambassadors, and Lucien Tissot-Dupont was invited by Louis Cartier to sell his precious travel cases in his store on 5th Avenue.

Drawing inspiration from the ornamental, baroque style of this decorative trend, the lighters and pens in this limited edition are decorated with golden grills. The arabesques are a veiled reference to both Raymond Sube’s fancy ironwork and the world held up by Atlas standing at the foot of the Rockefeller Center.

Taupe and chocolate lacquer echo the colours decorating the apartments created by these interior designers, and the sophisticated, discreet atmosphere emanating from these homes.

This exceptional limited edition is made up of three lighters, a Jeroboam, Ligne 2 and a small-size Ligne 2, two Olympio Extra Large pens, a fountain pen and rollerball, and smoking accessories, including a cigar cutter, an ashtray and a humidor.

The lighters and pens are numbered out of 1929, referring to the date of Lucien Tissot-Dupont’s first trip to New York. The Jeroboam and humidor are numbered out of 329 and the ashtray and cigar cutter out of 529.

Taking luxury and refinement even further, S.T.Dupont has designed a new version of the Ligne 2 lighter and the Olympio Extra Large pen, which are decorated with solid white gold grills set with hundreds of sparkling white diamonds. The series is limited to 20 units of each item worldwide.