Collection
The history of the Palace of Versailles is now being written with BIC® 4 Colours® pens. Each model is personalised with an iconic detail from the Palace or its gardens.
Château de Versailles x BIC® 4 Colours® pen
Discover our four unique designs:
The BIC® 4 Colours® pen - Bony
Taken directly from a textile collection that entered the Palace of Versailles on 20 July 1998, this design showcases a project for the Queen’s bed, approved by Thierry de Ville-d’Avray in May 1786. Against a backdrop adorned with ribbons of roses, the motifs designed by Jean-François Bony feature delicate garlands of flowers, peacock feathers, and the Queen’s monogram on a bell-shaped bed canopy.
The BIC® 4 Colours® pen - Cabinet doré
Highlighting the interplay between the purity of white and the brilliance of the gilded mouldings, the Gold Room pen is inspired by Marie-Antoinette’s private boudoir. This secret room in the Palace of Versailles, adorned with exceptional gilding, was the sanctuary where the Queen would write her confidential letters.
The BIC® 4 Colours® pen - Parterre
The Parterre design draws its inspiration directly from the famous embroidery-style parterres devised by André Le Nôtre for the Palace of Versailles’ gardens. Conceived as vast green carpets to be admired from the Palace of Versailles’ windows, their arabesques of trimmed boxwood and coloured stones formed what amounted to veritable lacework of plants.
BIC® 4 Colours® pen - Topiaires
Paying homage to the living sculptures that shape the silhouette of the Palace of Versailles’ gardens, the ‘ Topiaires pen draws its inspiration directly from the art of topiary. As early as the 17th Century, André Le Nôtre pruned boxwood and yew into cones, pyramids, and spheres to complement the architecture of the Palace of Versailles. Even today, gardeners continue this painstaking craft on more than 700 topiaries.
