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Around the world the LAMY brand stands for high-quality designer writing instruments with a timelessly modern aesthetic and perfect functionality. In 1966, the LAMY 2000 model established the clear, unmistakable design language that still characterises the style of all the brand's products today - the LAMY design.
Since its foundation in 1930, LAMY has been consistently committed to Heidelberg as its only production site, thus guaranteeing consistently high quality "Made in Germany". The brand is now represented in more than 80 countries with over 15,600 sales outlets worldwide, including around 200 mono-brand stores.
The company continues to set trends, not just through its annual special editions and has inspired writing enthusiasts around the world with its innovative colours and surface finishes. In this way, LAMY continues to reinvent itself and proves that a writing instrument is more than just an everyday object: it is a genuine lifestyle accessory which expresses the pleasures of writing by hand and highlights the individuality of the owner.
Since February 2024, the Heidelberg-based company has been part of the Japanese stationery company Mitsubishi Pencil Company, which was founded in 1887 and is behind the internationally renowned uni and POSCA brands.
Family business
Our common attitude is based on core values that guide our daily actions at all levels of the company. These values are shaped equally by LAMY’s past and by its view of the future.
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Quality
For decades, LAMY has stood for high-quality designer writing instruments with timelessly modern aesthetics and perfect functionality. We practice quality as a holistic expectation for every activity in the company.
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Design
The liberation from fashionable ornamentation and the consistent renunciation of all details that do not serve function ensure that LAMY writing instruments accompany people over years and decades of their lives.
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Responsibility
Sustainability stands for enduring values, timeless ideas, lasting benefits and durable products. At LAMY, this is not just a promise – sustainable action is a matter of course for us.
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Pioneering spirit
The constant development of groundbreaking new designs and technical innovations has made LAMY what it is today: one of the world's most renowned writing instrument manufacturers.
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Worldwide
LAMY is an internationally popular lifestyle brand and is represented in more than 80 countries with over 15,600 points of sale worldwide, including around 200 LAMY mono-brand stores.
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For LAMY, design is aspiration, identity and inspiration all at once.
The writing instruments from the Heidelberg-based company speak their own unmistakable design language. This makes them not simply fashionable, but always contemporary and therefore timeless.
This design philosophy was first formulated and realised in 1966 when the LAMY 2000 was launched – an icon in the world of fountain pens.
Our aim is to develop a product that fulfils its function one hundred per cent and then to shape it in a way that makes its functionality and materiality visible and appeals to people.
Form follows function
The striking design, created by Gerd A. Müller, is characterised by its slim silhouette and the use of high-quality materials.
This fountain pen defined the design guidelines that are still valid today: reduced in form, but perfect in function. Ever since, all LAMY writing instruments have been based on this principle of functional design, be it a LAMY safari, a LAMY pico or a LAMY scala.
We see our products as universal ‘thinking tools’ that help people express their thoughts, develop ideas and find solutions. They thereby contribute to a better understanding and shaping of the world.
Lasting
The timelessly contemporary aesthetics combined with the highest quality have always guaranteed lasting enjoyment of the products and thus their long-term use. The liberation from fashionable ornamentation and the consistent renunciation of all details that do not serve function ensure: LAMY writing instruments are not disposable products.
They accompany people for years and decades of their lives. LAMY writing instruments have always been more than just perfectly designed products in terms of shape and technology. They are important companions for millions of people because they are not only used for everyday writing tasks, but also help capture, shape and make thoughts tangible, whether through writing, drawing or painting.
Quality
The LAMY design is also inextricably linked with uncompromising quality standards. The company has always ensured this by manufacturing at its Heidelberg site using a combination of state-of-the-art technology and traditional craftsmanship. Every detail is carefully checked and processed to ensure that each writing instrument functions perfectly and is aesthetically pleasing.
Even in times of increasing internationalisation, LAMY writing instruments are manufactured exclusively in Germany and thus stand for the highest quality and design worldwide – simply “Made in Germany”.
Made in Germany
We are a company from Heidelberg and are one of the leading German manufacturers of writing instruments.
Design
According to the Bauhaus principle “form follows function”, design for us is a holistic approach that goes beyond pure product design.
Quality
From technology and materials to production, our high quality standards run through the entire value chain.
Thinking tools
Our tools for writing, drawing and painting help to create new forms of expression and make thoughts tangible.