Florence / Online
Mondadori stores sell books, stationery and media across Italy.
Best for Bestsellers and stationery.
Stationery of Italy
15 stores · curated ORBIS register
Italian stationery keeps the paper house tradition alive; engraving in Florence goes back to 1774. Pettinaroli handcrafts stationery and notebooks in the Milanese paper craft tradition. Pineider has engraved stationery and leather desk goods in Florence since 1774. Cartoleria Pantheon stocks leather notebooks and fountain pens beside wax seals as a historic Milan stationer. Paper weight matters more than the cover here, so the sheet deserves a flex. The shop's own pen negotiates the deal better than any description of the nib.
Visit official site ↗Pineider
Heritage HouseFlorence / Online
Florentine stationer since 1774 — Napoleon and Byron ordered here; engraved paper and pens still do the talking. first shop was Piazza della Signoria (1774); left that square in 2011 for Piazza Rucellai, then moved to Lungarno Acciaiuoli in 2022.
Best for Engraved stationery and leather desk goods.
Visit official site ↗Milano / Via Ponte Vetero
Milan's historic stationer — leather notebooks, fountain pens, wax seals, and the shop that still sells correspondence materials to discerning Milanese.
Best for Leather notebooks, fountain pens, wax seals, historic stationer.
Visit official site ↗Fratelli Bonvini
Heritage HouseMilano / Via Bonvini
Milan stationery-printing shop opened 9 July 1909 by brothers Costante and Luigia Bonvini in the Corso Lodi/San Luigi district, and restored to working order in 2014 with its original treadle press, 1930s Imperia platen press and wooden type drawers intact. Today it operates as a working letterpress and bookbindery, running typography and traditional paper workshops.
Best for Working 1909 Milan letterpress shop and bookbindery with original presses
Fratelli Bonvini opened as a stationery shop on 9 July 1909, when siblings Costante and Luigia Bonvini set up along Corso Lodi in Milan's then-industrial San Luigi district. The business quickly expanded into printing to serve the growing neighborhood, turning out everything from letterheads to price lists on machinery that included a late-19th-century treadle press, a 1930 Imperia platen press and a 1950s Heidelberg Stella -- all still on site today. Costante's daughter Leila Bonvini and her husband Luigi Cambieri kept the family workshop running for decades afterward.
In 2014, the associates of FBM S.r.l. carried out a conservative restoration of the premises at Via Tagliamento 1, preserving the original layout, printing machines, bookbinding equipment and wooden typographic drawers rather than converting the space. Bonvini 1909 reopened as a working shop and cultural venue combining a functioning letterpress, a bookbindery and gallery space for exhibitions.
The workshop today runs typography and bookbinding services alongside courses -- including a paste-paper (carta colla) workshop teaching the centuries-old technique for decorating book endpapers and covers -- positioning Bonvini 1909 as one of Milan's few surviving working print-and-bindery botteghe rather than a museum piece.
Visit official site ↗Milan / Online
Moleskine was founded in 1997 as a modern successor to the little black notebook tradition associated with writers and artists including Bruce Chatwin and Ernest Hemingway. Today the brand sells notebooks, planners and related paper goods worldwide.
Best for The classic notebook and city guides.
Visit official site ↗Pettinaroli
Heritage HouseMilan / Online
Historic Milan paper specialist selling antique prints, maps, stationery, notebooks and paper-based decorative objects. founded 1881 after Francesco Pettinaroli moved from Lake Orta to Milan, first beside Galleria Vittorio Emanuele; now on Via Brera.
Best for Historic handcrafted stationery and notebooks; traditional Milanese paper craft heritage
Visit official site ↗Antica Cartotecnica
Hidden GemPiazza dei Caprettari, Rome, Italy
Antica Cartotecnica on Piazza dei Caprettari in Rome dates its history to 1930, when Elisa Berti began working for the wholesale stationer then in the building; within a few years she took the business over. Alongside fountain pens, ink and fine paper, it still offers pen repair and custom printing of stationery and letterhead.
Best for Vintage and contemporary fountain pens with in-house pen repair
Antica Cartotecnica's history starts in 1930, when Elisa Berti took a job at a wholesale stationery business with a retail shop attached, at Piazza dei Caprettari 61 in Rome's historic center. Within a few years its owner moved abroad and she took the business over, later running it with her children. Her grandson Alessandro runs it today, and the wholesale side has long since moved out of the center. The business describes itself as having watched Rome change around it while keeping its own character and atmosphere intact.
The shop's stock spans both new and vintage writing instruments: fountain pens, inks and refills sit alongside writing paper, stationery, leather goods and a collection of vintage pens and inkwells sold as collectibles. That mix of contemporary retail and chosen vintage stock is central to how the shop presents itself, as a destination for both everyday writing supplies and pieces aimed at collectors.
Beyond selling pens, Antica Cartotecnica also services them: the shop offers pen repair and maintenance, custom leather work, and printing services for business cards, letterhead and personal writing paper. It also handles personalized gifts and decorative objects alongside its core stock of pens, inkwells and vintage collectibles. Notebooks and leather pieces under the shop's own name are made for it by Italian artisans. Its pen work is repair and servicing rather than manufacture, and that service counter is what distinguishes it from a stationer that only sells.
Visit official site ↗Rome
Pergamena is a workshop specializing in handmade paper and bookbinding. Production is associated with Handcrafted in their Roman workshop using traditional techniques, while the range centers on handmade paper, bookbinding and stationery.
Best for Handmade paper, bookbinding and stationery
Visit official site ↗Turin / Italy
Bottega Fagnola has bound and restored books by hand in Turin since 1955, working on everything from notarial deeds to antique manuscripts at its Via Orvieto workshop under master bookbinder Luciano Fagnola. Its Via San Tommaso shop and online store sell handmade agendas, albums, and notebooks crafted with the same techniques.
Best for Crafts & Stationery, Bookbinding
Visit official site ↗Venice
Bottega Casati Venezia has followed the tradition of marbled paper and bookbinding since 1983 from Cannaregio in Venice's historic center, near La Fenice. Owner Stefano Casati's workshop makes notebooks, photo albums, masks and document holders from its own marbled paper, hand-printed velvet and Italian leather.
Best for Venetian marbled paper and bookbinding
Visit official site ↗Cartiera Amatruda
Hidden GemAmalfi
Amalfi's last surviving historic paper mill, run by the Amatruda family for centuries, still makes cotton-rag paper the traditional way. Its output runs from wedding stationery to fine-art paper.
Best for Handmade Amalfi paper and stationery
Visit official site ↗Fabriano / Marche / Online
Paper since 1264 — the Marche mill that taught Europe watermarks, still making artist paper and notebooks. Official + inItaly: a 1264 notarial deed now at Matelica records purchase of notebooks of Fabriano paper. Official history dates Fabriano watermarks to 1293 (inspired by wool-makers' marks).
Best for Artist paper from the oldest mill in Europe.
Visit official site ↗Ferrara (Via de’ Romei)
An independent bookshop on Via de' Romei that combines books with an exhibition space and a workshop, stocking new, used and out-of-print art, design and illustrated titles. It also sells handmade paper, hand-carved stamps and ex libris, and runs watercolour courses and custom framing.
Best for Independent art bookshop and paper goods
Visit official site ↗La Scuderia del Duca
Hidden GemAmalfi
An Amalfi stationery and bookbinding shop built around handmade Amalfi paper. It turns out leather-bound journals, letterpress printing and traditional craft goods.
Best for Amalfi paper journals and stationery
Visit official site ↗La Tarlatana
Hidden GemVia Canonica
La Tarlatana is a printmaking studio and shop on Via Canonica where hand-pulled artistic prints and handmade stationery are produced. Cards, notebooks, and limited-edition prints are made and sold on site.
Best for Hand-pulled prints and stationery
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