Sabina Santos Sandblasted Paneled Horn with Durat (Unsmoked) Tobacco Pipe

Sabina Santos hails from Portugal, where she is one of that country's few pipe artisans and formerly worked as a corporate financier before turning to her craft full-time. This Horn of her making is paneled to give the bowl four sides surrounding the chamber in a diamond pattern, each of them sandblasted and colored with a light walnut stain for a soothing appearance. Out back, the shank kicks upward to give the heel a generous curve as the stummel backs into a lengthy tapered stem of sea green vulcanite with a barely-there downward bend. Sabina accented the vulcanite with a colorful ring of Durat — a durable, polyester-based material invented in Finland and made with recycled plastics. The Durat is a playful addition to an already quite playful pipe, and one indicative of Sabina's unique artisanship.