Caminetto 08.R.28

The history of Caminetto begins in 1959 when Giuseppe Ascorti, known as "Peppino," was hired by Carlo Scotti to work at Castello, a pipe factory in Cantu. Ascorti quickly stood out and became a notable pipemaker. However, he had the ambition to work on his own. Over time, and thanks to the financial support of his wife Paola, Ascorti managed to gather the necessary tools, and in 1968 he left Castello to start his own workshop with his neighbor and talented pipemaker, Luigi Radice.

Gianni Davoli, a tobacco merchant in Milan, became their main distributor, successfully promoting Caminetto pipes in the United States. The brand was associated with the image of a chimney, "camino" in Italian, and the three men became known as "I tre Camini" - the three chimneys. The brand stood out for its high quality and competitive prices compared to Castello.

In the 1970s, Caminetto thrived, but differences between Ascorti, Radice, and Davoli began to emerge. Radice was dissatisfied with the mass production that limited his creativity and feared that the quality would decline. Tensions increased when Davoli, who controlled the majority of the company's capital, refused to hire Ascorti's son, Roberto.

In 1979, Radice left the company, and shortly after, Ascorti also left, taking his team with him and founding a new company under his own name, Ascorti. Meanwhile, Davoli was left with the Caminetto brand but without any pipemakers, and shortly after, the original Caminetto workshop caught fire and was left in ruins.