Herriot Pipes Smooth Dublin w/ Boxwood 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.

Of the innumerable forms taken by briar pipes since their inception in the 19th century, it seems that there is one shape that’s united pipe makers across time and space: the Dublin. From the historic pipe companies of Saint-Claude and London, to the pioneering post-war artisans of Scandinavia, to what has become a truly international scene in the contemporary, few eschew the Dublin. Chris Herriot has had the privilege of studying and working with pipe making greats in England, France, and Denmark, and his portfolio reflects that in the many ways he approaches the Dublin shape. This one leans toward the traditional—as Herriot Pipes often do—though it nonetheless has a healthy measure of the modern to it as well. Compact and eminently lightweight in the vein of early briars, the bowl wears a gorgeous, wine-red contrast finish that sets its straight grain alight. This finish is mirrored by the pipe’s mouthpiece, hand-cut from red and black brindled cumberland, while a golden boxwood accent offsets each ever so slightly, while also adding a hair of breathing room for the eyes between them.

Details:

Length: 5.4″ / 137.1mm

Bowl Width: 0.73 / 18.54mm

Bowl Depth: 1.56″ / 39.62mm

Weight: 0.9oz / 28g