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'''''See the [[Talk:Dino_da_Campione]] for a more thorough and accurate write up in Italian, which we hope to translate and have here for the main article soon...''''' | '''''See the [[Talk:Dino_da_Campione]] for a more thorough and accurate write up in Italian, which we hope to translate and have here for the main article soon...''''' | ||
[[File:Airaghi Leonardo.jpeg|thumb|left]][[File:DINO E CESARE.jpeg|thumb]][[File:Innesto diagonale.jpeg|thumb|left]][[File:Scan 2.jpeg|thumb]][[File:Scan 3.jpeg|thumb]] | |||
Dino da Campione named Leonardo Airaghi born in Milan (1929 - 2010) was a great interpreter in | |||
pipes of handicrafted manufacture, and considered by many: “ The Chanpion of the Italian | |||
handmade pipe”, the production began in 1969. | |||
Having descended from famous artists, among them: Tomaso Airaghi 1827-1899 and Giovan Battista | |||
Airaghi (1803-1855) and Leonardo Airaghi 1871-1900, Leonardo was provided a wonderful heritage for making pipes with this unique artistic heritage at its foundation. | |||
Each pipe was a carved block, depending on the briar grain; each pipe was born by their own | |||
nature, but always with classic form, elegant and balanced. | |||
Pipes always polished with natural wax, rusticated was wery rare, pipes with briar defects were | |||
abandoned. | |||
Made offen flat surfaces under the pipe and a little foot on the mouthpiece in bone or briarwood to | |||
stand-up the pipe on the table; While maintaining homogeneous the combustion and eliminating | |||
the loss of brace from the stove. Outdoor use was so facilitated. | |||
Maniacal attention to the suction hole to be realized always on the bottom and developing a | |||
particular execution technique. | |||
The customers ordered a: “ Dino da Campione” not a Bulldog or a Billiard. | |||
Just a few small indications were accepted; even when the surprise was great, you fell in love with | |||
the details of your special one “Dino”. | |||
Unlike many craftsmen who, since the mid-1990s, have grown up and developed throughout Italy, | |||
The | Dino da Campione has represented a unicum for "elegance, originality of details and product | ||
quality”. | |||
Presidents of multinationals, nobility and politicians, successful business clients, men of strong | |||
personality and character also sought it at his official workplace (Casino di Campione Manager) to | |||
talk to him and recommend a special one pipe, Which some considered lucky (To the casino!) | |||
From Switzerland he sent to: Florida, Brazil, Venezuela, New York, Delaware, Singapore, Dubai | |||
and Korea. His concern: "the pipe and his endless mouthpiece so far could no longer break ..." to | |||
test the prototypes and eliminate accidental breaks at the clients' homes, toss the pipes against the | |||
laboratory wall often with a negligible result. But finally in the last technical evolution developed | |||
with his son Cesare the mouthpieces and the pipe resisted the test! | |||
Dino was anti-marketing par excellence, so it was the editorialist of: "Friends of the Pipa"; by | |||
making numerous articles always countercurrent and original. | |||
Production was always made up as a hobby by having other activities of family origin, the | |||
commercial dynamics in Italy were almost exclusively owned by Novelli in Rome, which for a long | |||
time remained the only benchmark even with a modest number of pieces available. | |||
Every “Dino” demanded a very important implementation time, here because the production was | |||
limited, but it is a guarantee that each piece punched with the original stamp was made by his | |||
hands. | |||
The punctuation in addition to the "Dino da Campione" mark, could additionally be an “oval” with | |||
the initials "AP" of "Absolutely Perfect" for pipes without the slightest trace of briarwood impurities | |||
and in addition a variable number of up to 4 "Snails" which, like the stars of the hotels, identified | |||
him as a personal ranking. The special denomination: "QUEEN" was reserved for the pieces he | |||
considered extraordinary and of whom he had fallen in love. | |||
The private laboratory still untouched in Switzerland, reveals the details of how many original | |||
solutions have been created: horn ring, silver or gold snail with coral, stand up leg, 5 pieces | |||
unbreakeable mouthpiece, metal ring on topo of the fireplace, etc. | |||
His twentyfive-year collaboration with his son Cesare Airaghi, who in 1980 undertook the career of | |||
designer, even in roots product, has developed the technique of the diagonal anti-breaking | |||
mouthpiece, of which very few specimens are known: pipe and mouthpiece integrate perfectly, | |||
Achieving not only aesthetic momentum but absolute cohesion, making it almost impossible to | |||
break through accidental fall! | |||
These constructive peculiarities, that were absolutely conflicting with the concept of production | |||
standardization; were the opposite of the concept of profit, high in percentage the number of pieces | |||
Dino never wanted to sell and put into his private collection. | |||
Dino continued for his own passion to make pipes until 2005, but after 1999 they were detained by | |||
the family. | |||
Production data per year are the following: | |||
*1969 12 pipes | |||
*1970 24 pipes | |||
*1971 38 pipes | |||
*1972 38 pipes | |||
*1973 60 pipes | |||
*1974 51 pipes | |||
*1975 87 pipes | |||
*1976 27 pipes | |||
*1977 68 pipes | |||
*1978 121 pipes | |||
*1980 92 pipes | |||
*1981 107 pipes | |||
*1982 155 pipes | |||
*1983 187 pipes | |||
*1984 188 pipes | |||
*1985 166 pipes | |||
*1986 201 pipes | |||
*1987 216 pipes | |||
*1988 165 pipes | |||
*1989 177 pipes | |||
*1990 235 pipes | |||
*1991 213 pipes | |||
*1992 188 pipes | |||
*1993 199 pipes | |||
*1994 255 pipes | |||
*1995 237 pipes | |||
*1996 165 pipes | |||
*1997 188 pipes | |||
*1998 176 pipes | |||
*1999 145 pipes | |||
Dino da Campione passed quietly on 10 December 2010 in the family house in Morcote, Switzerland. | |||
[[Category: Pipe makers by nationality]] | [[Category: Pipe makers by nationality]] | ||
[[Category: Italy]] | [[Category: Italy]] |