Cerrato Rodate

Luciano Cerrato, born in 1917, devoted to his hobby the passion and skill that made him a master of his craft. He began smoking a pipe at the age of 18, and this passion led him, in the early 1960s, to take up pipe-making as a hobby. As soon as he retired, he devoted himself fully to pipe-making, producing 150–200 pipes a year entirely by hand. Most of his pipes (around 90 per cent) are smooth and flamed, thanks in part to the exceptional quality of the briar he works with. The pipes are crafted according to his own designs, in either free-form or classic styles. The distinctive design of his pipes has made them famous throughout the country, and Pertini was a great admirer of his work. His pipes are renowned for their ‘impossible’ bore – the stems are bored with a double curve, and he is the only pipemaker in the world to produce this type of bore.