Smith House Sandblasted Apple w/ Imitation Amber Handmade Briar Pipe, New

Description

Taking their name from architect Richard Meier’s avant-garde homestead just off the Long Island Sound, Smith House Pipes are the creation of New York artisan Rich Rosselli. Like the Danish-American functionalists before him, Rosselli excels at creating modernized renditions of tried-and-true, traditional, Anglo-French staples. This he combines with novel uses of color and ornamentation, giving Smith House Pipes their acclaimed, signature aesthetic.

Now this is exactly what I meant by modernized renditions. Like the billiard and Rhodesian Smith House pipes listed alongside it, here we have a very classic shape in the form of a quarter-bent apple. Its bowl is just as one would might find in a mid-century GBD or Comoy’s, from the functionalist simplicity of its shaping to its reserved, near-black sandblast finish. But then we get to the shank end, capped by an imitation amber ferrule—itself very evocative of the old-world—in which sits a flared, and otherwise slender, jade green ebonite stem. The cut of the stem not only serves to plump up the bowl by comparison, but it also gives “hanging” effect—just like the fruit of its namesake.

 

Details:

Length: 5.7″ / 144.7mm

Bowl Width: 0.77 / 19.55mm

Bowl Depth: 1.43″ / 36.32mm

Weight: 1.6oz / 46g