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Last week I reviewed the Pebble Stationery Co. Leather Notebook Cover, and the A5 Cahier Art Deco Limited Edition is the one designed as the perfect insert for that cover. You could fit two of these in the cover, but they're slim enough that you could also fit one of these and an additional thicker notebook as well. They'd work great in almost any A5 folio designed to hold inserts.
It's a standard sized A5 cahier with a cardstock cover and 120 numbered pages of 52 gsm Tomoe River Paper. The cover is lovely, with an art deco pattern and a bit of glossy finish with some gold accents. It looks fancy. The cardstock has enough thickness that it can work as a writing surface on its own, and it does a good job protecting the pages without becoming too worn. The binding is sewn along the entire length of the spine, which helps with its durability as well. There are no loose pages after a few weeks of writing, and with a bit of training, the pages lie open flat. Inside the front cover has space to write your personal info as well as notes about the contents of the book. The edges of the pages are painted gold, which looks great with the gold accents on the cover.
Of course, the Tomoe River paper is always a plus in a notebook. I did, however, have a bit of feathering with a wet ink in a broad nib on some pages. I am not certain, but I suspect this is new generation Tomoe, as the coating feels a bit different to me from the paper in my other Tomoe notebooks. It was also just an issue with that one pen and ink combo, so it's possible that the culprit is not the paper. I did not have any bleeding and very little showthrough, even with a FA flex nib, so the paper is still very good overall. The faint 5 mm dot grid provides just enough guidance without being imposing.
This notebook is just the right size and proportion for a class notebook, a commonplace book, a bullet journal, or for meeting notes. At $14.99, it's a little pricier than similar styles, but it's also a little fancier. It's also a limited edition, so if its fanciness suits your fancy, grab one!
(Pebble Stationery Co. provided this product at no charge to The Pen Addict for review purposes.)
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