by Mark Irwin

It is a real delight to introduce one of Neatpipe’s own young artisan pipe-makers, Davide Iafisco. Luca introduced me to Davide at the Chicagoland Show last May, and when I was cruising through all the astounding pieces on display in Luca’s rooms, I saw that Davide had brought a number of his own pipes. With Roberta’s help I chatted with Davide for a few minutes and learned he was working toward a debut.  Read more

by Luca di Piazza

I would like to dedicate a few words to say goodbye to a man who was both adear friend of mine, as well as the pipe world as a whole. His name is Paolo Becker, and he passed in the night between Friday and Saturday last. Read more

by Bear Graves

Bear Graves: I’m here with Luca di Piazza, the promoter extraordinaire of Neatpipes/Italianpipemakers, the owner of Luciano Pipes, as well as the representative for Cavicchi, Radice, Don Carlos, Le Nuvole, Posella, Davide Lafisco, and Tonino Jacono, as well as one of the coolest guys I have had the pleasure of meeting. It’s been a while, Luca, how are you? Read more

by Luca di Piazza

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by Mark Irwin

Back in March, David over at one of the most intellectually and aesthetically sophisticated pipe-smokers blogs going, TobaccoDays.com, launched “The Most Creative Pipe Photo Contest, which I heard about through Neill Archer Roan’s A Passion for Pipes blog.  In addition to walking away with some nice pipe-prize money, the winners, he wrote, would have their photos displayed in an exhibition at this year’s Chicagoland Pipe Show. If you haven’t seen the winners yet, quit reading this and go over to his site. You’ll be agog with delight. Read more