Herriot Pipes Sandblasted Liverpool Dublin Handmade Briar Pipe, New

Description

In 2003, one of France’s preeminent pipe luminaries, Erwin Van Hove, jubilantly proclaimed, “Hallelujah! One of the very best American artisans has recently settled on French soil.” Two decades later, Antoine Grenard, director of Chapuis-Comoy and president of the Confrérie des Maîtres-Pipiers de Saint-Claude, oversaw the induction of another artisan originally from the Anglophone world into its hallowed brotherhood. Van Hove was, of course, welcoming Trever Talbert. The Confrérie, on the other hand, was welcoming Chris Herriot. Parallels between the two are difficult to ignore; both were outsiders who laid down roots in France and, crucially, thrived by it. Both forged connections with the Francophone pipe community, developing friendships and associations that would help them lay the foundations of their respective brands. And both would build something on these foundations that garnered them significant national and international acclaim. In Herriot’s case, this meant apprenticing under Bruno Nuttens (himself a former student of Pierre Morel and Tom Eltang), spending several days each week laboring in Nuttens’ Charpey workshop, and the rest of his time in his own.

Chris Herriot has always had a fondness for the classics of Anglo-French pipe making, and it was his renditions of these shapes that first brought him widespread acclaim. On the other hand, even in his most traditional designs, there’s usually a healthy measure of the modern. In the case of this one, it retains much of the shaping, proportions, and finishing of the great, early 20th century makes, such as Barling or Charatan, while adding its own, slightly less conventional touches. Most notably is its blending of the Liverpool and the Dublin, though a closer inspection also reveals a second, very contemporary juxtaposition—that of the pipe’s modest, dark sandblast finish and an almost psychedelic ebonite mouthpiece.

Details:

Length: 6″ / 152.4mm

Bowl Width: 0.72 / 18.28mm

Bowl Depth: 1.64″ / 41.65mm

Weight: 0.8oz / 24g