Sphères devotes its first issue to pipe smokers

From January onwards, Sphères magazine will be available from newsagents. It will cover a range of subjects around the pipe and looks set to establish itself as a mirror of ordinary people. Here are the details.

A first issue in mid-January 2020

What sets this particular review apart is that each issue will be devoted to a different community. Published quarterly, the first issue of Sphères will come out during January 2020 and will focus on pipe smokers. The magazine aims to be of high quality in both content and design, so that it can be kept much like a reference book or a small encyclopaedia.

Across the magazine's 150 pages you will find craftsmen, smokers and pipes, but also coming trends, the culture of the pipe, stories, anecdotes and advice. Beyond the detailed and well-documented articles, the images promise to be worth the read as well.

So what is in the first issue? Quite simply, François Sureau explains his "friend in difficult times" (the pipe); there is also a photo report on Saint-Claude, before a piece on the last tobacco growers in Belgium. Then the focus moves to Italy and the briar cutters, and to the real Popeye. You can finish with an interview with Gustav Temple and find out how J. R. R. Tolkien revived pipe sales.

Beyond the magazine

Sphères is also a website, fed by committed journalists, which gives a glimpse of the magazine's world. The Facebook page also links the readership with the journalists. Not subscribed yet? Now is the time.

Each of the articles is the product of interviews, reporting on the ground and portraits shaped by chance encounters. It amounts to a collection of shared moments of life, for curious and committed readers alike.

Where to find Sphères magazine

Sphères magazine will be available in bookshops. For those who prefer, it can also be ordered directly from the website and from specialist retailers.