Ser Jacopo: La Fuma Smooth Bent Dublin Tobacco Pipe

Founded in 1982 by Giancarlo Guidi, Ser Jacopo has built a reputation on crafting high-quality briars that are renowned for their robust proportions and playful shaping cues. The Italian atelier's style has since defined the Pesaro style of pipe making, each of their pipes imbued with a sense of character and reflecting the whimsical creativity that went into crafting them. Though Guidi passed away in 2012, his legacy lives on not only in the pipes he crafted, or the company he founded, but in the language of design that he helped to pioneer. Ser Jacopo's La Fuma, "The Smoke" in English, line of pipes is the first tier within their smooth-finished pieces, and presents a good value for the grain on display, made all the more tempting thanks to its inviting mahogany stain. This bent Dublin is a rather compact pipe thanks to its tight-knit overall shaping, and it comes in at just over four and a half inches long overall, still embodying a respectable amount of heft for the hand to appreciate. A tall, flaring bowl expands out of a rounded heel and cants forward dynamically as the wide transition gives way to a thick, tapering shank. Said shank lifts to meet a smartly curved saddle stem, offering a comfortable smoking posture that does well to balance the weight of the piece, its stummel's warm stain revealing handsome grain.