SEVEN SERIES
Seven Facets of Time
The Seven Series by 22STUDIO is inspired by the seven-day week's perpetual nature. The seven sides represent this artificially created structure to our sense of time. These striking facets are formed through a 14-day curing process in a specialized chamber—strengthening them and ensuring that they withstand the test of time.
Writing Instruments
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Meet the Studio
"In 2005, my wife Yiting Cheng, and I founded 22STUDIO to satisfy our enthusiasm for concrete's raw, exposed beauty. Inspired by the works of Japanese architect Tadao Ando, we wanted to create personal products that transmitted the material's honesty and transparency."
- Sean Yu, 22STUDIO Co-Founder
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Great Pen But Gets Dirty Easily
It's a beautiful pen, and writes well, but it's more of a work of art than something that can be used regularly as the concrete seems to absorb dirt and oils from your fingers very easily.
Concrete Help
The first pen arrived broken, but the team offered to replace it. It's a really nice, unusual and very good writing tool, the nib is extremely soft.
Excellent product
What can I say? This is an excellent Fountain Pen, it has an amazing quality and also the way that it has been delivered including the packaging was perfect. I bought this Pen as a birthday present, and now we are wanting to get more writing instruments. Another important point is that every interaction with customer service was smoothly and very respectful, so I'm very pleased. I needed a personalization on the pen, and it ended looking incredible on our hands. I definitely plan to get more of this kind of products, so please keep creating amazing quality products, original designs and the excellent customer service.
An awesome pen that changed my life
I was so excited to use the pen that I filled it from the first bottle of ink I found in my desk drawer. It wrote beautifully from the start, and felt great in my hand. I was in love. BUT--- The pen leaked. I'd clean the ink off the grip section and use it for a day, and then the next day, the same leak and the same cleaning. I got to thinking: (a) God help me, I've bought the DeLorean of pens. I've already bragged about it to everyone I know. I'll be a laughingstock. (b) What exactly was in that little unlabeled bottle, and how many years had it been sitting there? Could the problem be (gasp!) the ink? I cleaned the pen out, and tried a Kaweco cartridge, Smokey Grey (to match the concrete color---first things first, right?) It wrote beautifully, still felt great in my hand, and, mirabile dictu, it never misbehaved again! As for changing my life---I did a lot of scribbling, hatching, and shading trying the pen out. I can't shade with a pen to save my life. Pencil, sort of, good enough for cartooning. But once I got the pen working with that grey ink, I discovered: 1) the F nib puts down a line about as fine as a mechanical pencil 2) the grey ink makes a line that looks like pencil 3) if you go over the line, it gets darker (bear with me here) and 4) IT LOOKS GREAT. It's dark, and nothing like that darker-grey-but-shiny pencil mess The upshot is that for me, this pen is a tool that provides all (or more than) the results I could get with pencil, with all the comfort and convenience (and cachet) of a fountain pen. Executive summary: This pen is a work of art, and after experiencing it, I was transformed. That's what art does, I guess.