About Us

Studio Pens is the authorised UK distributor for Kaweco, Marius Fabre and Schmidt Technology. We are a small father and daughter business with a total staff of 5 people. Ian has a background in manufacturing and has been in the pen business for many years. Nikki's background is in marketing.  

Ian became involved in the pen world quite late in his career, as the result of a chance meeting in 1999 with George Kartsotis, the founder of US pen brand Retro 51. Over the ensuing years, Ian served his apprenticeship in the writing equipment business, becoming a distributor for Schmidt Technology along the way. In 2009, Ian met Michael Gutberlet of Kaweco at Paperworld and subsequently became their UK distributor. The business flourished. Nikki, his eldest daughter, joined Ian in 2015, fulfilling a lifelong ambition of Ian's to build a family business. Studio Pens continued to grow, and in 2017 we moved out of The Studio in Ian's garden in Surrey up to a small business unit in Knaresborough, North Yorkshire, where Nikki lives. By early 2020 we were bursting at the seams again, so in February 2020 we bit the bullet and took on a much larger industrial unit at Follifoot Ridge.  

In 2024, we took a slight detour and became the UK distributor for Savonnerie Marius Fabre, makers of traditonal Marseille soap in Salon de Provence.  Although soap is a very different product to pens, Marius Fabre is a quality heritage brand, owned and managed by the same family since 1900, and making an artisan product loved the world over, and the opportunity was one we couldn't let us pass by, so here we are!

We are passionate about our brands, and we would be very happy to tell you about them in detail if you would like to get in touch!

Ian and Nikki

Studio Pens Limited is registered in England & Wales. Our company number is 05552258
Our VAT number is 875 8609 66