At the same time Europe embraced briar and clay, across the Atlantic a simpler, humbler pipe was taking root—the corn cob pipe. Born out of practicality on the American frontier,…

The 19th century ushered in a new era of pipe smoking with the introduction of the briar pipe. Crafted from the root burl of the Erica arborea shrub, briarwood was…

By the 17th century, pipe smoking had become a cultural phenomenon across Europe—especially in England and the Netherlands. At the center of this growing trend was the clay pipe: long-stemmed,…

When Christopher Columbus arrived in the Caribbean in 1492, he expected spices, gold, and new trade routes. What he didn’t anticipate was smoke. On the islands of Cuba and Hispaniola,…

Long before cigars and cigarettes influenced modern smoking culture, the true origins of pipe smoking were deeply rooted in the sacred traditions of the Indigenous peoples of the Americas. Smoking…