Claudio Cavicchi: Brown Smooth Bent Billiard Tobacco Pipe

A lesson in the Italian neoclassic style of pipe design, this Claudio Cavicchi bent Billiard features a bowl that dominates the profile's visual weight, an aspect that's accentuated even further by the shank's subtle taper toward the transition. The bowl is immensely hearty in hand, with plenty of chamber insulation and an almost cylindrical shaping that reinforces its sturdy posture, and the base of the saddle stem continues the shank's outward flare for compositional coherence. It wears a smooth finish and the Italian artisan's walnut stain for a conservative palette and handsome highlight of the briar's flame grain.