Pete Prevost: Smooth Mini Bent Egg with Bakelite Tobacco Pipe

If there's one thing that really sticks out to me about this piece, it's gesture. Pete Prevost has a knack for making the ebb and flow of implied motion seem practically effortless. With a single, sweeping curve from stem-base to rim, there is hardly a straight line to be found here. Its forward-reaching bowl transitions easily into the rearward-flicking shank, with licks of flame acting as guides to coax the eye one direction or another. With its stem of lime sherbet green bakelite at one end, imbued with a smart, rounded stem base, and tons of smoldering flame at the other, you might be torn as to where you want them to travel first.