Moleskine

Not to be confused with Moleskin.

Moleskine S.p.A.
Company typeSRL a socio unico
Industry
Founded1997; 27 years ago (1997)
Founder
HeadquartersViale Piceno 17,
Milan, 20159
,
Italy
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
  • Daniela Riccardi (CEO)
Products
Number of employees
363 (2015)
Divisions
  • Moleskine America, Inc
  • Moleskine Asia Ltd.
  • Moleskine Germany GmbH
Websitewww.moleskine.com Edit this at Wikidata

Moleskine (Italian pronunciation: [moleˈskiːne]) is an Italian manufacturer, papermaker, and product designer. It was founded in 1997 by Maria Sebregondi and is based in Milan, Italy.[2] It produces and designs luxury notebooks, as well as planners, sketchbooks, leather backpacks, holdalls, journals, wallets, various accessories, and stationery.

45°29′43.6″N 9°10′57.3″E / 45.495444°N 9.182583°E / 45.495444; 9.182583Moleskine's notebooks are stylised to follow the aesthetics of a 'traditional' black notebook with rounded corners and ivory-coloured paper. They are bound in cardboard with a sewn spine that allows the notebook to lie flat. An elastic band is used to seal, and a ribbon bookmark is included along with an expandable pocket inside the rear cover, which is packed in a paper banderole.

Bruce Chatwin's name is used to sell Moleskine notebooks.[3] Chatwin wrote in The Songlines of little black oilskin-covered notebooks that he bought in Paris and called "moleskines".[4] The name Moleskine does not have an official pronunciation.[5]

  1. ^ Martin, Claire (18 April 2015). "Moleskine Notebooks Adapt to the Digital World". The New York Times. Retrieved 20 April 2015.
  2. ^ Raphel, Adrienne (14 April 2014). "The Virtual Moleskine". The New Yorker. Retrieved 20 April 2015.
  3. ^ Shakespeare (1999). Bruce Chatwin. p. 564.
  4. ^ Chatwin (1987). The Songlines. New York, N.Y. Viking/Penguin. pp. 160–161.
  5. ^ Cave, James (27 July 2016). "So THAT'S How You Pronounce 'Moleskine'". HuffPost. Retrieved 9 January 2018.