Writing and publishing books is hard, especially for those not affiliated with large publishers. Writing a book about pipes is really hard, and there's only a very small audience to appreciate the achievement; however, when such a book is as well researched, well written, and well laid out as The Peterson Pipe: The Story of Kapp & Peterson, it's going to get attention in the larger world of publishing despite its esoteric subject matter.
Mark Irwin and Gary Malmberg's book, The Peterson Pipe, published by Briar Books Press, has recently been honored with such an award by the Independent Publisher Book Awards, better known as the IPPY. IPPYs are awarded annually to recognize excellence in independent publishing titles from around the world. Eligible are university titles, independent publishers, and self-published books. In 2020, the Independent Publisher Book Awards received over 4900 submissions across 85 categories, and The Peterson Pipewas awarded the IPPY gold medal for "Best First Book — Non-Fiction." For a book with such a narrow interest as the history of a single pipe manufacturer to be so recognized is an event to be celebrated by all in our hobby.
The largest and most innovative building in the world measured 563 metres long by 124 metres wide, and the height of the central transept was 33 metres. The total floor space, which covered the ground floor and galleries occupied around 9 hectares, while the display area covered over 13 kilometres. Built with astonishing speed in prefabricated glass and iron on the edge of Hyde Park, the Crystal Palace was the epitome of modern technology and design, a worthy construction to house the Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of all Nations, the very first World’s Fair, designed to showcase modern industrial technology, but above all to show Great Britain’s superiority at the height of its colonial and industrial power. From 1st May to 11th October, 1851, over six million people visited the monumental green house viewing and admiring manufacturing exhibits from all over the world. Half of the building west of the transept was assigned to exhibitors from Great Britain and its colonies, and strolling among the vast upper galleries amongst all sorts of objects and machinery, you could also come across a few pipes...
The Premium Cigar Association (PCA) is temporarily pressing pause. In a press release today, the trade organization representing premium cigar AND PIPE TOBACCO manufacturers and retailers announced that it would be furloughing its entire staff, including its executive director Scott Pearce, beginning July 15, 2020. Find out what led to the decision, how it impacts the organization and how long the furlough could last.
I guess the anti-smoking groups figured out how to run pro-smoking groups out of the money needed for litigation....just create a pandemic. It is kind of like anti-gunners trying to “sin” tax ammo out of existence to ultimately render all firearms wall-hangers. Similar to the backwards-assed way the “deeming laws” aimed at E-Cig devices got around to screwing with tradition tobaccos, cigars, and pipes.
It's time for another round of beautiful pipe smoking desktop backgrounds! As in previous months, we've compiled some our favorite shots and artwork to share with you. Below you'll find eight unique images, split between desktop and mobile orientations and available for download in two high-resolution formats. We even went ahead and put in next month's calendar so you can keep your desktop fresh. They're ready for you to use however you'd like. Feel free to download and set them as your desktop or phone background, or print them out and hang 'em on your wall.
He may have been inspired by a picture in a museum or a book. The painting depicted a Renaissance nobleman with a proud, aristocratic bearing, a certain Ser Jacopone. The name ‘Jacopone’ was too serious, and it was better to shorten it to Jacopo – “Ser Jacopo: that’s what we’ll call our company”. This was back in 1981 or 1982 and at 38 Giancarlo Guidi was at a major turning point in his life.
Born in Pesaro (central Italy) at the end of the war, Guidi cultivated two great passions: pipes, which he had discovered at 16, and all forms of creative expression. He studied at the Ferruccio Mengaroni Art Institute, pursuing in particular training in Applied Arts, which was the pride of his city’s artistic tradition. He then acquired further skills in majolica and glazes, a centuries-old craft tradition in Pesaro. However, he soon realised that his greatest creativity lay in pipes, which he loved to smoke while relaxing...
<<I like my tobaccos on the dry side, but I tried every level of humidity, from its original, out-of-the-tin moisture to desert-dust dry, and nothing worked. It just sat in the bowl of my pipe, no more burnable than limestone. If I had a fire in my kitchen, throwing Dark Star on it would probably be more effective than a fire extinguisher. I tried cutting it into cubes. I tried rubbing lightly and gradually worked it smaller and smaller to the point of near powder. I tried folding the jerky-like flakes into the bowl whole. I smoked it in Stacks, Pots, Billiards, Blowfish, Meerschaums, Clays, and Cobs. I tried playing music for it, from jazz to classical, rock to blues. I plied it with charm and flattery, and put it on the mantle in a place of honor to boost its self-esteem. I read love sonnets to it, and the ungrateful concoction still refused to burn.>>
Since 2015, the American Pipe Making Exposition has been an annual Smokingpipes tradition that showcases the work of US-based artisan pipe makers, as they create pipes specifically for that year’s theme. Previous years have focused on accenting materials or finishing styles, with last year’s expo themed around bamboo, but for 2020, we took a slightly more nebulous, philosophical approach. For this year’s theme, we asked carvers to fashion pipes that represent their artistic influences.
Much like the United States as a country, American pipe making is a beautiful convergence of differing ideas, styles, and voices — a melting pot of aesthetics in which the influence of other design traditions and the styles of carvers from other countries have mixed and melded to create something unique and special in its own right.
As it stands today, artisan pipe making in the United States has seen many of its most prominent and respected makers draw inspiration from Danish artisans, like the Ivarssons and Jess Chonowitsch, as well as Japanese masters, like Hiroyuki Tokutomi, who himself was deeply influenced by Danish artisan pipe making as a student of Sixten Ivarsson. Also present is the influence of old-school French and English marques and their creation of classic pipe shapes and proportional standards, upon which all of pipe making is founded.
Even further, as this current iteration of American artisan pipe making continues to grow and progress, US-based carvers have not only looked to Denmark and Japan for inspiration, but they’ve also influenced one another, through tutelage and inspiration. A number of more experienced artisans have opened their workshops to beginning carvers for mentoring over the recent decades, both sustaining and increasing the world of artisan pipe making while also indirectly propagating personal stylistic elements.
As a global network, the world of artisan pipe making evolves and changes, with carvers reenacting the design cues of artisans before them who, in turn, were experimenting with aesthetic elements of carvers before them. Each iteration retains a hint, a flavor, an aroma of those previous influences, all while maintaining its distinct individuality: This is American artisan pipe making as we know it today.
For this year’s 6th Annual American Pipe Making Exposition, our featured artisans honor this tradition and pay homage to their inspirations. Some makers manifested this theme by emulating the styles of artisans whose work has influenced them, while others drew inspiration from iconic pipe smoking personalities and creative mediums unrelated to pipe making.
See the entire collection for yourself and appreciate the evolution of artisan pipe making, and the influences that have shaped today’s American artisan pipe makers.
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Lawsuit Filed Against Los Angeles County Flavor Ban Ordinance
Los Angeles County Tobacco Ordinance bans the sale of menthol cigarettes and every flavored tobacco product.https://tobaccobusiness.com/lawsuit-filed-against-los-angeles-county-flavor-ban-ordinance/
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It's only a matter of time before the Seattle Pipe Club comes out with that blend.
Peterson Book Wins IPPY Award
June 26, 2020 by Andrew Wike
Writing and publishing books is hard, especially for those not affiliated with large publishers. Writing a book about pipes is really hard, and there's only a very small audience to appreciate the achievement; however, when such a book is as well researched, well written, and well laid out as The Peterson Pipe: The Story of Kapp & Peterson, it's going to get attention in the larger world of publishing despite its esoteric subject matter.
Mark Irwin and Gary Malmberg's book, The Peterson Pipe, published by Briar Books Press, has recently been honored with such an award by the Independent Publisher Book Awards, better known as the IPPY. IPPYs are awarded annually to recognize excellence in independent publishing titles from around the world. Eligible are university titles, independent publishers, and self-published books. In 2020, the Independent Publisher Book Awards received over 4900 submissions across 85 categories, and The Peterson Pipewas awarded the IPPY gold medal for "Best First Book — Non-Fiction." For a book with such a narrow interest as the history of a single pipe manufacturer to be so recognized is an event to be celebrated by all in our hobby.
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The largest and most innovative building in the world measured 563 metres long by 124 metres wide, and the height of the central transept was 33 metres. The total floor space, which covered the ground floor and galleries occupied around 9 hectares, while the display area covered over 13 kilometres. Built with astonishing speed in prefabricated glass and iron on the edge of Hyde Park, the Crystal Palace was the epitome of modern technology and design, a worthy construction to house the Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of all Nations, the very first World’s Fair, designed to showcase modern industrial technology, but above all to show Great Britain’s superiority at the height of its colonial and industrial power. From 1st May to 11th October, 1851, over six million people visited the monumental green house viewing and admiring manufacturing exhibits from all over the world. Half of the building west of the transept was assigned to exhibitors from Great Britain and its colonies, and strolling among the vast upper galleries amongst all sorts of objects and machinery, you could also come across a few pipes...
Continue reading https://www.alpascia.com/moments/en/detail/114/london-smoke
Pipe works: Q&A with local pipe-tobacco connoisseur
https://www.greensboro.com/1808greensboro/people/pipe-works-q-a-with-local-pipe-tobacco-connoisseur/article_33fb9a6e-0338-11e5-88bd-d76b7d7c9634.html
https://www.google.com/search?tbm=bks&q=tobacco+pipes
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PREMIUM CIGAR ASSOCIATION FURLOUGHS ENTIRE STAFF
The Premium Cigar Association (PCA) is temporarily pressing pause. In a press release today, the trade organization representing premium cigar AND PIPE TOBACCO manufacturers and retailers announced that it would be furloughing its entire staff, including its executive director Scott Pearce, beginning July 15, 2020. Find out what led to the decision, how it impacts the organization and how long the furlough could last.
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Pipe Smoking Desktop Backgrounds: July 2020
July 1, 2020 by Andrew Wike
It's time for another round of beautiful pipe smoking desktop backgrounds! As in previous months, we've compiled some our favorite shots and artwork to share with you. Below you'll find eight unique images, split between desktop and mobile orientations and available for download in two high-resolution formats. We even went ahead and put in next month's calendar so you can keep your desktop fresh. They're ready for you to use however you'd like. Feel free to download and set them as your desktop or phone background, or print them out and hang 'em on your wall.
SER JACOPO
WHEN ART MEETS PIPES
He may have been inspired by a picture in a museum or a book. The painting depicted a Renaissance nobleman with a proud, aristocratic bearing, a certain Ser Jacopone. The name ‘Jacopone’ was too serious, and it was better to shorten it to Jacopo – “Ser Jacopo: that’s what we’ll call our company”. This was back in 1981 or 1982 and at 38 Giancarlo Guidi was at a major turning point in his life.
Born in Pesaro (central Italy) at the end of the war, Guidi cultivated two great passions: pipes, which he had discovered at 16, and all forms of creative expression. He studied at the Ferruccio Mengaroni Art Institute, pursuing in particular training in Applied Arts, which was the pride of his city’s artistic tradition. He then acquired further skills in majolica and glazes, a centuries-old craft tradition in Pesaro. However, he soon realised that his greatest creativity lay in pipes, which he loved to smoke while relaxing...
(more) https://www.alpascia.com/moments/en/detail/117/ser-jacopo
<<I like my tobaccos on the dry side, but I tried every level of humidity, from its original, out-of-the-tin moisture to desert-dust dry, and nothing worked. It just sat in the bowl of my pipe, no more burnable than limestone. If I had a fire in my kitchen, throwing Dark Star on it would probably be more effective than a fire extinguisher. I tried cutting it into cubes. I tried rubbing lightly and gradually worked it smaller and smaller to the point of near powder. I tried folding the jerky-like flakes into the bowl whole. I smoked it in Stacks, Pots, Billiards, Blowfish, Meerschaums, Clays, and Cobs. I tried playing music for it, from jazz to classical, rock to blues. I plied it with charm and flattery, and put it on the mantle in a place of honor to boost its self-esteem. I read love sonnets to it, and the ungrateful concoction still refused to burn.>>
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Since 2015, the American Pipe Making Exposition has been an annual Smokingpipes tradition that showcases the work of US-based artisan pipe makers, as they create pipes specifically for that year’s theme. Previous years have focused on accenting materials or finishing styles, with last year’s expo themed around bamboo, but for 2020, we took a slightly more nebulous, philosophical approach. For this year’s theme, we asked carvers to fashion pipes that represent their artistic influences.
Much like the United States as a country, American pipe making is a beautiful convergence of differing ideas, styles, and voices — a melting pot of aesthetics in which the influence of other design traditions and the styles of carvers from other countries have mixed and melded to create something unique and special in its own right.
As it stands today, artisan pipe making in the United States has seen many of its most prominent and respected makers draw inspiration from Danish artisans, like the Ivarssons and Jess Chonowitsch, as well as Japanese masters, like Hiroyuki Tokutomi, who himself was deeply influenced by Danish artisan pipe making as a student of Sixten Ivarsson. Also present is the influence of old-school French and English marques and their creation of classic pipe shapes and proportional standards, upon which all of pipe making is founded.
Even further, as this current iteration of American artisan pipe making continues to grow and progress, US-based carvers have not only looked to Denmark and Japan for inspiration, but they’ve also influenced one another, through tutelage and inspiration. A number of more experienced artisans have opened their workshops to beginning carvers for mentoring over the recent decades, both sustaining and increasing the world of artisan pipe making while also indirectly propagating personal stylistic elements.
As a global network, the world of artisan pipe making evolves and changes, with carvers reenacting the design cues of artisans before them who, in turn, were experimenting with aesthetic elements of carvers before them. Each iteration retains a hint, a flavor, an aroma of those previous influences, all while maintaining its distinct individuality: This is American artisan pipe making as we know it today.
For this year’s 6th Annual American Pipe Making Exposition, our featured artisans honor this tradition and pay homage to their inspirations. Some makers manifested this theme by emulating the styles of artisans whose work has influenced them, while others drew inspiration from iconic pipe smoking personalities and creative mediums unrelated to pipe making.
See the entire collection for yourself and appreciate the evolution of artisan pipe making, and the influences that have shaped today’s American artisan pipe makers.
https://www.smokingpipes.com/smokingpipesblog/single.cfm/post/6th-annual-american-pipe-making-exposition
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