Pineider’s love for calligraphy is a delicate art that flows on paper, tracing lines of passion and care. Each letter, every stroke, represents an intense emotion dancing in the ink, narrating stories without words. In the union of love and calligraphy, words become art, painting thoughts that can endure forever.
In the digital age, where texts can be reproduced endlessly and wander limitlessly in cyberspace, paper and pen preserve the fragile beauty of the non-replicable. Handwriting is the realm of unique and irreproducible singularities. Writing a simple note becomes an act of subversion, a claim of uniqueness. By wielding a pen, we expose ourselves to the risk of loss, dedicating ourselves to the certainty of never again. And this decision, rebelling against the mechanism of seriality, corresponds to authentic luxury: the luxury of reliving as many lives as those we write.
But beyond the romantic aspect that resonates with anyone who loves handwriting, there is also a more practical side: writing allows us to rediscover creativity, realign the mind and body through the slowness of gestures and concentration.
Calligraphy is the art of writing beautifully, but handwriting is the graphic rendering of words, of individual letters.
In Pineider’s workshops, we want to re-learn the pleasure of holding a pen; sketch the correct shapes of the alphabet’s letters; recall the cursive of the past; regain awareness of the fragility and beauty that paper and pen still preserve today.