G. Penzo: Smooth Eggy Lovat with Horn (A) Tobacco Pipe

An Industrial Designer by trade and currently serving as Peterson's in-house Pipe Specialist, Giacomo Penzo has spent much of his working life invested in crafting tools and instruments to work to their highest potential. Such skill combines well with his artistic eye to fashion beautiful pipes supported by long-lasting quality and exemplary engineering, and his personal shaping style runs the gamut from traditional pieces to more avant-garde designs.

A creative fusion of two shapes, this pipe combines the rounded, organic bowl of the Egg with the shank and stem of the classic Lovat. Traditionally, the Lovat is a Billiard rendition with an elongated shank and an abbreviated saddle stem. Riffing off of that base, Penzo has here traded the Billiard bowl for an Egg and set the transition higher, allowing the heel to drop below the shank's bottom line. Such an aesthetic choice emphasizes the bowl's egg-like shaping and also calls to mind the profile of a corncob pipe — only here fashioned from beautiful briar: Stunning cross grain perfectly bifurcates the bowl, leaving birdseye along the flanks, and Penzo has artfully accented it all with a trim wedding band of horn along the shank end.