Takeo Dressco Memo Pad — Grand (A5)

Takeo has been sourcing and developing fine Japanese paper out of Tokyo since 1899, working with mills and designers to keep colour, texture, and craft at the centre of paper-making. Dressco is their line of textured notepads and notebooks — paper meant to be handled daily, not tucked away for special occasions.

The Grand memo pad is A5-sized and holds 30 sheets of Gilbert Oxford laid paper, watermarked and snow white, with a soft woven texture that keeps pens gliding smoothly across the page. It plays nicely with fountain pens, keeping lines clean without much bleed-through. The cover is a textured off-white paper, simple and unbranded, so the paper itself does the talking. Made in Japan.