Italian Estates: Radice Silk Cut Bent Billiard (G) (2021) Tobacco Pipe

After working at Castello and Caminetto, Luigi Radice founded Radice and began carving pipes with his sons. Radice has since become one of the most recognizable and influential pipe brands in Italy. They offer high-quality smoking instruments marked by bold, Italian neoclassical proportions and unique finishes, with this bent Billiard being one such example of the workshop's style. Up front, a tall, Stack-like bowl grows slender walls that rise from a rounded heel to a taut, flat rim. Said bowl houses a capacious chamber within its semi-cylindrical frame, ensuring plenty of long, leisurely smoking sessions. A gracile shank-and-stem arrangement brings up the pipe's rear and takes on a sinuous S-curve that promotes a comfortable smoking posture and adds a good deal of gesture to the shape's profile. Dressing this piece is a the Silk Cut sandblast, which highlights rippling growth rings across the bowl's flanks.