The Neutron 78 looks like something pulled from a Milanese warehouse — because it is. Ellepi has been making plier staplers in small batches outside Milan for decades, and the sensibility is Italian through and through: solid galvanized steel, weighty in the hand, designed around the conviction that usefulness is its own kind of beauty. A patented anti-jamming mechanism keeps it running hard and clean through 40 sheets.

Solid galvanized steel | 40-sheet capacity | Holds 100 staples | Includes 1000 staples, additional staples sold separately.