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<span style="color: red"><font size="4">Under construction!</font></span> | <font size="4">'''Novarte S.N.C. di Spanu Tommaso'''</font> <span style="color: red"><font size="4">(Under construction!)</font></span> | ||
<font size=" | In 1963 Tommaso Spanu left his home in Sardinia and wandered to Northern Italy to become a pipemaker. His uncle had managed an apprenticeship for him in Gavirate, in the province of Varese, with it's many pipe manufactures. His exceptional talent soon attracted the attention of '''Alberto Paronelli''' (→ [[Paronelli]]), the grand seigneur of Italian pipe business. Paronelli, a famed pipe designer himself, arranged that the best pipe craftsmen schooled his young fosterling and personally taught him in pipe design and styles. Soon Spanu reached a remarkable level of skills and began to work on the '''Clairmont''' pipes, a high-grade brand produced for and distributed by Paronelli. A little later the bulk of the Clairmonts was made by Spanu who was even allowed to stamp them with his own name additionally. | ||
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Image:Clairmont_8.jpg|<font size="1">Clairmont pipes...</font> | |||
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All in all Spanu spent 16 years in the North where he worked with many other famous pipemakers like '''Guiseppe Ascorti''' and '''Luige Radice''' e.g. In 1979 he finally felt it was time now to continue on his own. So he returned to Sardinia where he established his own workshop with some help from his brothers. A firm was founded to market the pipes, the Novarte S.N.C. di Spanu Tommaso. Furthermore he purchased a lisence from the local government and following Spanu is the only pipemaker worldwide who grows, harvests, mills and conditions his own briar! | |||
Today he works together with his sons, producing hardly more than a thousand pipes a year. Mostly more classic models for Italy, but also a good amount of more stylish designs for the foreign markets. | |||
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As far as known Tommaso Spanu is the only pipemaker who regularly, though quite rarely, makes pipes out of lemonwood. Apart from the very attractive and distinctive color of the wood (often white to light yellowish like a smoked meerschaum, with grain), these pipes are claimed to be absolutely wonderful smokers and compare to briar in their smoking quality. Unlike other types of wood, they are quite resistant to heat, porous and don't compromise the taste of the tobaccos in any way. | As far as known Tommaso Spanu is the only pipemaker who regularly, though quite rarely, makes pipes out of lemonwood. Apart from the very attractive and distinctive color of the wood (often white to light yellowish like a smoked meerschaum, with grain), these pipes are claimed to be absolutely wonderful smokers and compare to briar in their smoking quality. Unlike other types of wood, they are quite resistant to heat, porous and don't compromise the taste of the tobaccos in any way. | ||
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Image:Spanu_11.jpg| | Image:Spanu_11.jpg|<font size="1">Lemonwood pipes</font> | ||
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These pipes are additionally stamped "LIMONE" ("Lemon" in Italian). | These pipes are additionally stamped "LIMONE" ("Lemon" in Italian). | ||
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Novarte S.N.C. di Spanu Tommaso | Novarte S.N.C. di Spanu Tommaso | ||