Elderly customers can be seen often going into a Caran d’Ache shop to ask for a single absent color, as a replacement for their own worn down pencil; such is the cult of these finely... Elderly ...

A set of coloured pencils - that transform into watercolour when dampened with a paintbrush, all wrapped up in a tin featuring a rugged snow-topped mountain - has been the most prized acquisition of ...

For artists, students, kids, and even just everyday doodlers, colored pencils are an essential desktop item. Having spent seven years of my life studying the pencil as an object and selling it to ...

THE HUMBLE PENCIL IS probably one of the first writing implements any of us owns. Before the advent of large-format phones and digital tablets of every size, I was brought up on them: graphite, ...

No, put the school supplies list down. Not for kindergarteners but for you, the fashionable and tastefully affluent New Yorker who knows how to recognize a Caran d'Ache pencil carved of beechwood in ...

If you are an artist, art lover or grew up in Switzerland, you certainly have heard of the famed colored pencil (and pen) brand Caran d’ Ache. The family brand has been creating Swiss-made writing and ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Writer, editor, publisher and fan of all things handwritten. “Paul Smith has been a Caran d'Ache aficionado for over ten years and ...