Category Archives: PipeSmoke

April in Paris

Alan Schwartz April in Paris: From the classic tune by Vernon Duke to Count Basie’s big band playing it "’One More Time," this souvenir of our cultural history transcends generations. […]

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Siberian Pipe Dreams

Julia Szabo With pipe in hand, supermodel Irina Pantaeva is turning heads in Hollywood. She’s one of the world’s most sought-after supermodels, an exotic beauty who came to New York […]

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Dunhill’s Natural Selection

Alan Schwartz What do you have when you take the best piece of briar you can find, cut it and shape it by hand, buff it to ultimate smoothness, fit […]

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Peterson of Dublin

Alan Schwartz Peterson of Dublin has started another Irish revolution, but with no manifestos or righting of wrongs. With a "declaration of independence" from the ways of yester year—not in […]

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A&C Petersen

Alan Schwartz From the moment you walk in to the A&C Petersen factory, you know these guys don’t just make tobacco, they live it. On the horizontal support beams that […]

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Hollywood Pipes

Laurie Jacobson Hollywood has always been about looking good. That’s why the pipe has been there since the first cameras rolled. It’s the ultimate accessory. You wear it both in […]

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A Universe of Tobacciana – The George Arents Collection

Martin Hunter Tucked away on the third floor of the New York Public Library on 5th Avenue are two Georgian-style, pine-paneled rooms, resembling those of a country manor house – […]

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The Italian Renaissance Part II – Meet the Pipemakers

Alan Schwartz I. Cultural Icons – In Giancarlo Savinelli’s office, just around corner from the famous Savinelli shop in the heart of Milan, the ruggedly good-looking great grandson of the […]

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The Italian Renaissance

Alan Schwartz Because of the Italian Renaissance of the pipe is in its full, PipeSMOKE made a pilgrimage to Italy. We started in Rome and continued a peregrination around the […]

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PipeSMOKE’s Guide to Pipe Shapes and Styles

Jacques Cole When briar was first used in pipemaking, the shapes and models hardly differed from those made from other materials. But by the time the briar pipe industry was, […]

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