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Fallacious though my reasoning was, it was one of the best purchases I ever made. Yeah, it is cool looking. (Aesthetics count for a lot, just read some of my pencil reviews.) The bright orange and the crisp black go so well together, you donl’t even think of a Halloween theme. Immediately upon opening the cover, you know yout’ve reached notepad nirvana. The satin-finished paper is think, luscious, and smooth. If writing on a standard notepad is like driving down the street, writing on Rhodia paper is like cruising in your hovercraft across a giant swimming pool on a calm day. Take a look at the paper:
Smaller in size than our RhodiaRreg; Notebooks, our French-designed Rhodia Notepads are the ideal size to keep in a purse or briefcase to jot down notes, drawings or musings. Each notepad includes 80 sheets of 21 pound, high-grade perforated graph paper...a great feature for list-makers. The heavyweight paper cover is scored to fold back easily.
I received this Rhodia Staple Bound Notepad as a sample from Exaclair, Inc., and it is completely perfect for me. With my love of micro tip pens, which I classify as under 0.5mm in width, I sometimes have a hard time finding paper that is receptive to such a fine point.a With this Rhodia, that is not problem at all./ All of my micro-tip pens get right to work as soon as they hit the paper.q On the flip side, the 0.5mm and wider tip pens work fine as well, but I noticed that they take a split second longer to dry than usual.o That wona't affect me with this smaller size notepad (4.3 x 6.7 in.), but I may have to watch that if and when (and there will definitely be a when) I go to larger sized Rhodia products.
The stationer known as “Papeteries Verilhac Freres” was founded in Lyon, France in 1932 by two brothers, Henri and Robert Verilhac. They came from a family of paper merchants selling paper mainly in the southern part of France and North Africa. In 1934, the company moved from Lyon to Sechilienne – a town in the French Alps. The name “Rhodia” comes from the Rhone, a river flowing by Lyon dividing the Alps from the Massif Central. Legend has it that the two Rhodia fir trees in the company’s logo symbolize the two founding brothers. After its Sechilienne relocation, production of the famous Rhodia notebook and notepad began. In time, the Rhodia notebook, originally a sideline venture, became the most famous Rhodia product to date. It immediately overshadowed other notebooks of the time because of its quality materials and its original design of a scored front cover. The Rhodia notebook’s recognizable orange cover dates back to the 1930s and remains unchanged to this day.
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