Intertabac Dortmund 2022

The 2020 and 2021 editions of the international fair “Intertabac” in Dortmund were cancelled due to the pandemic from Covid-19.

Although the 2022 edition has been announced, no one yet knows if it will be possible.

Over the years, around the figure of Antoine Grenard, boss of Chacom, a stand of the “cooperative” type had formed, of which I have already described the birth in the article Inter-Tabac: tobacco capitalism and the “corridor 7.06”.

In the last edition of 2019 I had offered to write and have a promotional brochure printed for the stand of which I was part. We called the group and the initiative, a real rarity in the world of the pipe, H5D30. The group, started several years before by the adventurous spirit of Mimmo Romeo and Gabriele Dal Fiume, became a beautiful mixture of pipemakers of different origins who tried to build an identity shared around the pipe quality and high grade craftsmanship, over time also enriched by the presence of good tobacco and excellent liqueurs.

Seven nations participated in the stand: Germany, Austria, Czech Republic, Poland, France, Denmark, and Italy.

I even asked my friend Brighton De Los Santos, from California who now lives in Australia, to draw the cover of the brochure for us. A true masterpiece:

Today, a bit out of nostalgia, a bit out of pride, I want to introduce you to the brochure that we printed through a video released at the time.