Herriot Pipes Smooth Asymmetrical 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.

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. This particular pipe was crafted in the wake of Herriot’s pilgrimage to the pipe Mecca that is Copenhagen and his studies with Eltang. The result is a beautiful, Franco-Dansk synthesis: a lightweight, slightly asymmetrical, and decidedly floral Dublin, dressed in a deep contrast finish that sets off its flame grain to no end.

 

Details:

Length: 6.0″ / 152.4mm

Bowl Width: 0.79 / 20.06mm

Bowl Depth: 1.43″ / 36.32mm

Weight: 1.1oz / 34g