Rind Billiard with Bamboo (2026) Tobacco Pipe

Luigi Radice worked in the prestigious Castello workshop before founding the Caminetto brand with Giuseppe "Peppino" Ascorti in the late 1960s. In 1980, Radice began producing his self-titled brand of pipes with his son, Gianluca, and father, Paolo. The brand pays heavy attention to the briar that goes into each pipe, seasoning it for three years before production.

This bent Dublin wears Radice's Rind rustication for a lightly craggy touch to the fingertips as they hold the stummel, and though the deeper reaches of the bowl's walls are stained darkly, plenty of ruby-hued briar can be seen and appreciated, as well. The walls are arrow-straight even for a Billiard and backed by a shank of briar stamped with circular nodes to appear similar to a knuckle of bamboo. The shank narrows lightly on its way back to the tapered stem of black acrylic. It's a playful work of pipe making that puts the imagination of Radice's artisans on grand display.