Don Carlos 2 Note Rusticated Bent Dublin Estate Briar Pipe, Italian Estates

Description

Don Carlos belongs to a historic lineage within Italian pipe making. The workshop was founded by Bruto Sordini (along with his wife Rosaria), who had previously made pipes for Mastro de Paja, where he also met Giancarlo Guidi. In 1981, Sordini and Guidi left Mastro de Paja to found their own workshop, Ser Jacopo. After years of making pipes at Ser Jacopo, Sordini once again departed to found a new venture, as he had ideas for shapes and styles that were quite different to Ser Jacopo’s established design philosophy. Sordini therefore created Don Carlos as a means of expressing this vision, resulting in pipes that are both quintessentially Italian, and bearing aesthetic that is wholly their own.

This particular Don Carlos manages to do something quite impressive in pipe design, combining a generally larger and heftier than average stature with a surprising amount of elegance and grace. This is in no small part thanks to its broad but gentle curvature, and the way the bowl appears to “bloom” outward from the pipe’s narrower shank and stem.

The condition is great. A small spot of rim darkening.

 

Details:

Length: 6.2″ / 157.4mm

Bowl Width: 0.85 / 21.59mm

Bowl Depth: 2.08″ / 52.83mm

Weight: 2.0oz / 58g