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Catalogue
Fall - 2009
 
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— The history
THE LEGENDARY NOTEBOOK
Moleskine® is the heir of the legendary notebook used for the past two centuries by artists andthinkers, from Vincent Van Gogh to Pablo Picasso from Ernest Hemingway to Bruce Chatwin.The anonymous and essential little black notebook, with its unique rounded corners, elasticclosure, and expandable inner pocket, was originally produced for more than a centuryby a small French bookbinder that supplied Parisian stationery shops frequented by theinternational literary and artistic avant-garde. This trusty, pocket-sized travel companion heldtheir sketches, notes, stories, and ideas before they became famous images or beloved books.
CHATWIN’S TALE
In the mid-1980s, the little black notebook suddenly wasn’t to be found anywhere.In his book
The Songlines
, Bruce Chatwin tells us the whole story of his favourite notebook,which he nicknamed “moleskine”. In 1986, the original manufacturer - a family operatingin Tours - closed down forever: “Le vrai moleskine n’est plus” are the lapidary words Chatwinputs into the mouth of the owner of the stationery shop in Rue de l’Ancienne Comédie– also a legendary spot - where he stocked up on the notebooks. The Englishwriter-traveller bought up all the notebooks that he could find before he left for Australia,but they were not enough.
 
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THE MOLESKINE
®
NOTEBOOK
In 1997, a small Milanese publisher brought the legendary notebook back to life, choosing for it this literary name, thus restoring an extraordinary tradition. Following Chatwin’s footsteps,the Moleskine® notebook begins its journey once again, this time as an indispensable complementto today’s mobile technology. Capturing reality on the move, preserving details, impressingthe unique aspects of experience upon paper, Moleskine is an accumulator of ideas and emotionswhich are then released over time.
MOLESKINE TODAY
Today, Moleskine is synonymous with culture, travel, memory, imagination, and personal identity,both in real life and in the digital world. It is a brand identifying a family of notebooks, journals,planners and innovative city guides, adapted to different functions. With a variety of page layouts, Moleskine notebooks are partners for the creative professionsand the imagination of our time: they are a worldwide symbol of contemporary nomadism,closely connected to the digital world through a network of websites, blogs, online groupsand virtual archives. With Moleskine, the ancient (and typically analogical) practice of sketchingand jotting down notes finds unexpected connective space on the Web and in its communities.
www.moleskine.com
moleskineasia.commoleskine.humoleskine.ptmoleskine-buecher.demoleskine.chmoleskine.co.krmoleskine.co.jp
moleskine.com
moleskineart.commoleskinerie.tumblr.comamazon.com/moleskine
chroniclebooks.com
moleskinerie.com
— The history
DETOUR EXHIBITIONS
Detour 
is a project dedicated to cultureand creativity, with travelling displays of Moleskine notebooks realized by artists,writers, architects, designers, andmusicians all over the world.The notebooks have already beendisplayed in London, New York, Parisand Berlin, soon in Istanbul and Tokyoand in other cities.All Detour notebooks arepermanently displayed online
www.moleskine.com/detour 
.Detour and its artistssupport lettera27,a non-profit foundation
www.lettera27.org
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