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Talk about a pen name. (Pierre Hugo, great-great grandson of Victor Hugo launches collector-item pens) (Brief Article)

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From: Daily News Record
Date: 19920103
Author:Hart, Elena

Perhaps inspired by his great-great grandfather Victor Hugo, Pierre Hugo is hoping to ink a legacy of his own. He recently launched a series of collector's-item pens on which he re-creates the author's original notes and manuscripts.

Pierre says that jewelry as art runs in his family. His father was a designer well known in artistic circles for making limited-edition special-order jewelry designs in Paris during the '20s Modern period. He designed limited-edition jewelry interpretations for such luminaries as Pablo Picasso, Jean Cocteau and Max Ernst.

Pierre Hugo ...

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