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Tom Eltang's Early Career

Tom Eltang's Early Career

August 28, 2012 by Sykes Wilford

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"The best decision I ever made was to become a pipe maker," says Tom Eltang as he sands a billiard that will soon make its way to South Carolina to Smokingpipes.com. I'm sitting in Tom Eltang's workshop as I write and we've discussed everything from the political situation in Botswana to manufacturing in China, but the conversation, as it always does when I'm with Tom, returned to pipes. ... Read More

Video: Interview with Lars Ivarsson

Video: Interview with Lars Ivarsson

August 21, 2012 by Sykes Wilford

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Almost a year ago to the day, I was at Lars Ivarsson's home in the north of Sjaelland, Denmark's largest island. Pipe maker and friend Jeff Gracik made the trip to Denmark with me and he kindly helped take the video presented here. Also present were pipe maker Nanna Ivarsson, Lars' daughter, and her sons, including Sixten (named for his great-grandfather) who makes a brief guest appearance in the video too. ... Read More

Broken Pipe: Giancarlo Guidi

Broken Pipe: Giancarlo Guidi

August 13, 2012 by Sykes Wilford

Just prior to the sending of today's newsletter, I was saddened to hear that Giancarlo Guidi, founder and principle of Ser Jacopo, passed last Monday, August 6th, succumbing to stomach cancer. He had continued to work, making pipes and overseeing the Ser Jacopo workshop, until June. ... Read More

Eighteenth Century Remedies Involving Tobacco

Eighteenth Century Remedies Involving Tobacco

August 8, 2012 by Adam Davidson

Being a fan of 18th-century life and general history, I recently came across a book that was written in 1750 by William Ellis (an Englishman) called The Country Housewife's Family Companion (1750). ... Read More

George Braque

George Braque

July 31, 2012 by Eric Squires

"..in the still-life you have a tactile, I might almost say a manual space.. This answered to the hankering I have always had to touch things and not merely see them.. In tactile space you measure the distance separating you from the object, whereas in visual space you measure the distance separating things from each other." ... Read More

Pipe Maker Profile: Michael Lindner

July 26, 2012 by Ted Swearingen

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If you’ve been smoking pipes, buying pipes, collecting pipes, or even just looking at pipes over the last ten years, chances are you’re already pretty familiar with the work of American carver Michael Lindner. You may even be familiar with his story. ... Read More

Pipes in Art - Carl Spitzweg

Pipes in Art - Carl Spitzweg

June 28, 2012 by Eric Squires

The Romantic period of the first half of the 19th century was born in rebellion against the embrace of science, reason, and the advancing Industrial Revolution which defined the Age of Reason by itself embracing flights of dramatic fancy, emotional and philosophical turmoil, and an idealized (often unrealistic) Medievalism. ... Read More

Pipes in Art- Katsushika Hokusai

Pipes in Art- Katsushika Hokusai

June 13, 2012 by Eric Squires

When we think of pipes in art, it's easy for our first thoughts to be of images specifically from Western works. From Adriaen Brouwer's unflinching scenes of early 17th-century hedonism, to the stylized Cubist still-lifes of Juan Gris, to the sentimental illustrations of Norman Rockwell, the tobacco pipe has indeed seen great popularity in the art of Europe and the Americas alike. ... Read More

Review: Still Searching for Pipe Dreams

Review: Still Searching for Pipe Dreams

June 11, 2012 by Sykes Wilford

Rick has had Still Searching for Pipe Dreams in the works for some time. He first mentioned the project to me sometime last year and started pulling the pieces together for it in earnest at the beginning of this year. ... Read More

The Art of the Pesaro

The Art of the Pesaro

June 8, 2012 by Eric Squires

The birth of the "Pesaro" school was something of a renaissance for Italian pipe design, born, so the story goes, out of reaction to the rise of the Danish pipe during the 1960s, and the contrasting decline of attention to the Italian tradition. ... Read More

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