About me

I picked the name "Duca Pipe" and its grades in reference to Ferrara, my city, of medieval/renaissance origin.

The materials I use are of prime quality starting with the Briarwood itself that I get from different regions in Italy and that I personally age for at least 2 or 3 years according to rigid criteria. Because of my artistic nature I love esperimenting with all types of possible materials: Ebanite, metacrillato, animal horns and bones, Olivewood, Boxwood, Rosewood, black and white Bamboo Amboina, Tulipwood and other exotic woods of which I try to exalt their potentials in particular types of workmanship. I am therefore always looking for new aesthetic and functional solutions that combine forms, innovation and harmony. I enjoy hearing from people who smoke my pipes so as to understand their needs; beside being artistic objects my pipes are made to take full advantage of the quality of the wood thus satisfying the smoker. And it is for this reason that I have developed various ways to improve the smoke and avoid the formation of "drizzling" and humidity and reach a perfet burning of the tobacco in the pipe bowl.
I want to thank Gabriele Dal Fiume, strenuous promoter for the return of the Italian pipe underrated for too long a period of time. It is from this friend and able artisan that I obtained prescious advice at the beginning of my activity as a pipemaker, thus developing my personal techniques of construction.
Another of my hobbies is airbrush painting using temperas, acrylics and water paints....
...all accompanied by a good quantity of Golden Virginia that I particulary love!