Piper-Heidsieck champagne supplier in the US during the prohibition
The stories of Piper-Heidsieck’s bootlegging missions to transport the Champagne House’s finest to the States via French territory, Saint Pierre and Miquelon are surprising. The cases had made the journey from Reims, France, and it was at this French port that wooden transport cases were broken, and bottles transferred to jute bags filled with salt for their journey to the US. This made disposing bottles in the sea much easier in case they were intercepted by police and subject to inspection.
Piper Club Rock & Roll bar in Rome
The Piper Club, one of Europe’s oldest clubs, is an emblematic venue located on via Tagliamento in Rome. A symbol of beat and Yéyé music in Italy, this historic club played a crucial role in the country’s musical opening. Attracting renowned international acts such as Procol Harum, The Birds and Pink Floyd, as well as Italian acts like the New Trolls. If you’re in the area, Piper-Heidsieck is on the menu!
Ad poster 1910
Leonetto Cappiello was an Italian and French poster art designer and painter. He is now often called ‘the father of modern advertising’ because of his innovation in poster design. In the 1910s, he produced an advertising poster of a woman in an orange dress, uncorking a bottle of champagne where “Piper Reims” is mentioned.
Poster of the music hall of PH Music created by Tony Pastor
Considered as the father of vaudeville in the United States, Tony Pastor was an American impresario and comic singer. At the end of the 19th century, he performed a music-hall song dedicated to the House of Piper-Heidsieck on the broadway stage.
Ad poster 1910
Henry Gray, whose real name was Henri Boulanger, was born in Paris in 1858. Illustrator, poster artist, draughtsman and caricaturist, Henri Gray produced advertising posters for Parisian cabarets such as “Les Folies Bergères”. In 1897, he produced an advertising poster of a woman in toga, picking grapes by hand at the edge of a forest, next to a bust engraved with the name Piper-Heidsieck.
