Haiku
€ 190- USD: $203
I’m a pipe maker living on the Greek island of Corfu, making handmade tobacco pipes mainly from briar and aged Corfiot olive wood.
My artisan pipes are the children of my love for experimenting with various shapes and materials, careful design, a lifelong passionate relationship with wood processing and handcrafting, and the enthusiasm of transforming a piece of wood into something as personal as a smoking pipe.
I dedicate a lot of thought, attention, and love to all my pipes so that the pleasure of smoking them matches the enjoyment of making them.
Costas Zissis
“You are sitting and smoking; you believe that you are sitting in your pipe, and that your pipe is smoking you; you are exhaling yourself in bluish clouds. You feel just fine in this position, and only one thing gives you worry or concern: how will you ever be able to get out of your pipe?”
“I believe that pipe smoking contributes to a somewhat calm and objective judgement in all human affairs.”
“The pipe draws wisdom from the lips of the philosopher, and shuts up the mouth of the foolish; it generates a style of conversation, contemplative, thoughtful, benevolent, and unaffected.”