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Arbos

Arbos - a small company based in Solagna, North East Italy - produces an arrestingly beautiful range of recycled paper notebooks and accessories making use of all manner of recycled materials, from paper to leather and even tar! 100% of the material used by Arbos is recycled and it is all designed and assembled by hand.

Arbos created a unique stock of recycled paper called Cartapaglia. The paper sourced is unselected post consumer waste. There is no brightening or de-inking process and the resulting paper stock is rough, warm, perfectly imperfect and has earthy filaments, traces and blemishes...character, in a word.

It is this Cartapaglia which Arbos uses across all of their notebooks. It is lovely to look at, nice to write on and provides the corner stone for Arbos' design and manufacturing philosophy. Arbos believes that paper has many lives. The tree from which paper comes is a living thing which then dies. We can resurrect that tree, give it a new life. The recycled fibres used in Cartapaglia carry traces of that first life, and are as close to recreating the tree as we can come. They show the presence of man, they add character and history to our paper.

More than just an environmental mission, Arbos' recycled stationery is truly beautiful. Intricate patterns, masterful binding, unfailing devotion to the idea of colour and personality, Arbos notebooks are robust enough to be used every day whilst still being seriously lovely to touch and behold.

A wonderful range, Arbos brings together design integrity, environmental credentials, hand made expertise and robust every day materials to produce recycled notebooks which can transcend the every day, bringing new life to paper, depth to stories!