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In his workshop in Taggia, Italy, Domenico Roméo cuts the briar blocks from which pipes are made. A tour of the premises and a meeting with the man everyone calls Mimmo.
Read moreFrom the Jura to mechanical engineering, then to a design school and back to the family firm: the director of the Chacom pipe house talks about his route and about Saint-Claude.
Read moreVauen makes the pipes seen in Tolkien under the Auenland name: a small bowl, a very long bent stem and beech shaped in Germany. A look at the series and at its maker.
Read moreBased in Perpignan, Cyril Pinot carves electronic pipes by hand in briar or horn. Portrait of a maker of art objects who describes himself as the first master e-pipe maker.
Read moreBrassens, Orson Welles and Jacques Tati, but also Sherlock Holmes and Maigret: the figures, real and fictional, to whom the image of the pipe remains attached.
Read moreClosed in the 1990s, the Ropp pipe factory at Baume-les-Dames lives again in a book and an exhibition by two brothers, devoted to the people who once worked there.
Read moreIn a hundred-year-old building at Saint-Claude, Chacom dries its briar blocks so that the wood does not split. A video shows the last drying shed of its kind in France.
Read moreLuigi Viprati chooses his Ligurian briar himself and pairs it with silver in his Brescia workshop. The path of an Italian maker, from his first pipe to his limited editions.
Read moreFounded at Pesaro by Giancarlo Guidi, Ser Jacopo shapes its pipes by hand. A look at the collections of the Italian house, from the founding Delecta to the Calumet series.
Read moreThe name comes from a fable, that of the duck that laid the golden eggs. At Pesaro, two makers shape pipes by hand, recognisable by their duck’s head emblem.
Read moreFounded in 1802 at Cogolin, the Courrieu works cuts its pipes from the old briar of the Massif des Maures. Its six series, and the engraved cockerel that signs them.
Read moreBowl, shank, mortise, stem, tenon: the parts that make up a pipe, their role in the path taken by the smoke and the materials used from one model to another.
Read moreBefore it became the world capital of the briar pipe, Saint-Claude was a place of pilgrimage. The history of this Jura town and of the craft that made its name.
Read moreHolding back condensation, catching part of the nicotine and the tar, but calling for cleaning after every use: what the article credits filters with, on 9 mm pipes above all.
Read moreFrom boxwood pipes cut for Napoleon’s grognards to contemporary models, Chapuis-Comoy has been making pipes at Saint-Claude for almost two centuries. The story of Chacom.
Read morePipe rest, tobacco pouch, tamper, scraper: the accessories that surround the pipe, and what makes its price vary, from the wood used to the work of the pipe maker.
Read moreBuilding the cake, packing, lighting, upkeep: the four steps for looking after a new pipe, and the accessories that go with each of them.
Read moreBowl, budget and shape: three criteria are enough to find your way through a first pipe purchase, among a range of models whose number often puts beginners off.
Read moreA Valentine poem signed Massimo Pellerano, in which a man confesses to his love that he has fallen for another: the sleeping beauty lying under glass on a bed of silk.
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