Smooth Aladdins Lamp Tobacco Pipe

And then comes along a pipe that just demands to be gazed at indefinitely. Because it's made up of so many languid lines and playful turns, or perhaps because it's drafted and colored in a way that invites study, the form is tireless in the hand and the composition endlessly engages the mind. Tonni Nielsen seems to always tackle the adventurous, the irregular, and the exotic when it comes to his pipe making (he's no stranger to the classics, either, mind you), and here is but yet another example of the kind of delicately sprightly and highly articulate work the carver loves to produce and does so very well.

-- Ted Swearingen