Iwan Ries in ‘Chicago Magazine’

[briarfriar]

Excerpted:

Behind the counter was Douglas Czajkowski, Iwan Ries’s resident pipe expert. Czajkowski keeps a rack of a dozen pipes at work, and often smokes on the job. In his red jacket, with a paisley pocket square, he looked and acted like a magician as he laid out pipes for Darge. He even had his own patter, telling tales from the smoking life.


Read all about it here:

Is Pipe Smoking Making a Comeback?

Maybe it’s the young people, maybe it’s the need to de-stress, but Chicago’s (and America’s) oldest tobacconist is doing more business in pipes these days.

www.chicagomag.com

 

[Waning Embers]

It skipped Gen X

Some expert.

 

[Boko_Fittleworth]

Thanks for posting! Love all the guys at Iwan Ries. Douglas is awesome!

 

[ssjones]

Great article, wonderful to get some publicity.
I didn't know this!
Iwan (pronounced like Yvonne) Ries

 

[Egg Shen]

But they don’t say how to pronounce Ries.

 

[craiginthecorn]

But they don’t say how to pronounce Ries.

The staff doesn’t pronounce the store name like Yvonne—they say EEvon. Reese is how they pronounce the last name.

 

[ssjones]

The staff doesn’t pronounce the store name like Yvonne—they say EEvon.

That is how I would say Yvonne.

 

[Egg Shen]

The staff doesn’t pronounce the store name like Yvonne—they say EEvon. Reese is how they pronounce the last name.

Thanks, I’ve been butchering it

 

[khiddy]

That was a lovely piece. And I'll admit to falling for Douglas's fine patter and purchasing a pipe from him when I went in without intending to buy one that day. It is a lovely-looking pipe, though I haven't had a great smoke out of it yet (a Briarworks C12 that has a bit of a gurgle no matter what I smoke in it). No regrets, though, and I look forward to my next visit!

 

[Mike N]

I have visited Iwan Ries several times, and its 2d floor smoking lounge with the elevated train rumbling past the windows should be on any pipe aficionado‘s bucket list. Thanks for sharing this article.

 

[Mike N]

Anyone here who has not yet read that Chicago Magazine article should give it a go. I sent it to several of my pipe maker buddies and they all loved it.

 

[JoburgB2]

“When Darge had picked out two pipes, Czajkowski showed him how to pack it — tight on the bottom, loose on top: “that’s your kindling.”

Hmm? I‘ve sort of done the opposite: looser at the bottom, firmer and tighter at the top. Anyone else?

 

[Egg Shen]

“When Darge had picked out two pipes, Czajkowski showed him how to pack it — tight on the bottom, loose on top: “that’s your kindling.”

Hmm? I‘ve sort of done the opposite: looser at the bottom, firmer and tighter at the top. Anyone else?

That had me asking the same thing to myself

 

[JoburgB2]

That had me asking the same thing to myself

Nonetheless, it was a nice to read article. And a shop I would have liked to have visited. Thanks to briarfriar for the original post.

 

[khiddy]

Nonetheless, it was a nice to read article. And a shop I would have liked to have visited. Thanks to briarfriar for the original post.

Flights from Dundee to Chicago are a mere $993 round trip. Not sure how many haggises that adds up to, but it seems reasonable to me.

 

[craiginthecorn]

That is how I would say Yvonne.

My bad. I guess I've been mispronouncing Yvonne De Carlo almost my entire life!