Claudio Cavicchi: Smooth Bent Brandy with Olivewood (CCCC) Tobacco Pipe

This bent Brandy from Claudio Cavicchi is a bold, thoroughly Italian design that's replete with palm-filling substance. It features a tall, strapping bowl posed at the fore with an upright posture, its figure formed by sturdy walls tapering from the broad, rounded base toward the flat rim. A muscular, triangular shank curves upward from the transition, accented with finely-grained olivewood at the shank end as it joins to an arcing saddle stem, the arrangement lending this piece a gestural profile. Dressed in one of Cavicchi's iconic honey-blonde finishes, the stummel displays swathes of windswept vertical grain across both flanks and handsome birdseye along the underside.