Saladich

Saladich is the brand of pipes Catalan master Joan Saladich i Garriga signs with his own name. Known contact records place the master at an address in Catalonia, connected to Sabadell. The workshop is not a production facility but the scale of a one-man studio: pipes are not made for shelf stock but for a person, each piece taken on as a separate commission.

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What holds the master's work together is not a fixed family of shapes but the commission itself. Portrait pipes worked from a photograph, bowls carved with human and animal figures, classic shapes interpreted to the client's request, mold-free freehand pieces, and remakes of old examples all come from the same bench. The Saladich name is better known in Spanish pipe circles for these carved bowls in particular — pieces that resemble a small sculpture when held in the hand.

Alongside this, the master has also undertaken repair and restoration on pipes brought in by collectors and antique dealers; in his own promotional material he attributes this work to years of experience at the bench.