Ser Jacopo: La Fuma Smooth Billiard 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 Billiard showcases Ser Jacopo's neoclassical shaping style quite well, with a wealth of substance in the hand and a robust build that places nearly all of the visual weight on the bowl. Said bowl is extremely tall, with a low-set waist that gives way to tapering walls that cant forward dynamically from atop their rounded heel: these walls surrounding a capacious chamber well-suited to extended smoking sessions. A wide transition gives way to a short, tapering shank that reaches to a sleek saddle stem of black acrylic, working with the stummel's dressing to foster a timeless palette.