Emiliano

Emiliano is the brand of handmade pipes produced under his own name by Brazilian master Emanuel de Queiroz Emiliano. Production takes place in a one-man workshop based in Curitiba, in the south of the country; there is no series production, and every pipe comes from start to finish out of the same hands. The brand is counted among the relatively young but fast-maturing links of the Brazilian workshop tradition that gathered strength after the 2000s.

From Photography to the Lathe

Emiliano was born in Fortaleza; he moved south to Curitiba at a young age and worked for many years as a professional photographer. It is said that the sensitivity to form, texture, and proportion he brings to the bench comes from this earlier profession. His acquaintance with the pipe goes back further still, to years spent at a seminary; for a long time he remained only a smoker.

The turning point, according to the record, came in the summer of 2020. During the months of pandemic lockdown, with nothing on hand but a sanding machine and a drill, he made his first pipe: a Brazilian walnut bowl with a cast-resin mouthpiece. When the photo was shared online, the flood of order requests turned it from an idle experiment into something more. In the period that followed, tools were acquired step by step and the Curitiba workshop took its present shape.