The late Giancarlo Guidi, founder of Ser Jacopo, lived in the Adriatic port of Pesaro, Italy, and had a long-standing fascination with the pipes that he saw smoked by sailors and fishermen from far away lands. A common feature among those pieces is the suggestion that they may have been pipes of composite construction. In 1996, he began the La Pipaccia series as a type of homage to those novel pipes.