Herriot Pipes Smooth Asymmetric Apple 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.

More recently, in addition to his continued labors in Nuttens’ workshop, Herriot spent time further honing his skills with one of Nuttens’ own mentors, Tom Eltang. As with another pipe listed in this batch, this one was crafted shortly after Herriot’s return from his studies with Eltang. One might call it a Franco-Dansk synthesis, taking the form of a plump, bent apple, with a slightly asymmetric, concave rim, a stepped, saddle stem, and a deep contrast flame grain finish.

 

Details:

Length: 5.5″ / 139.7mm

Bowl Width: 0.74 / 18.79mm

Bowl Depth: 1.55″ / 39.37mm

Weight: 1.4oz / 42g