Moleskine ... a little bit of history

The Moleskine notebook is the heir and successor to the legendary notebook used by artists and thinkers over the past two centuries: among them Vincent Van Gogh, Pablo Picasso, Ernest Hemingway and Bruce Chatwin. A simple black rectangle with rounded corners, an elastic page-holder, and an internal expandable pocket: a nameless object with a spare perfection all of its own, produced for over a century by a small French bookbinder who supplied the stationery shops in Paris, where the artistic and literary avant-garde of the world browsed and bought them. A trusted and handy travel companion, the notebook has held invaluable sketches, notes, stories, and ideas that would one day become famous paintings, or the pages of beloved books.

In 1997, a small Milanese publisher brought the legendary notebook back to life. Today, Moleskine is synonymous with culture, imagination, memory, travel and personal identity – in both the real world and the virtual world.