The Briar Workshop Smooth Cherrywood Estate Briar Pipe, American Estates

Description

The Briar Workshop was an integral part of a new generation of North American pipe-makers in the second half of the 20th century, and helped create a new American hand made pipe movement. Originally based in Vermont, USA, The Briar Workshop was founded by Jorg Jemelka and Eliot Nachtwalter. Over the years, Jemelka and Nachtwalter were joined by pipe-makers such as Finn Andersen, Brad Pohlmann, J. T. Cooke, and Carole Burns. As the name implies, The Briar Workshop was not a factory, like much of American pipe production up until this point, but a workshop, where artisans could hand make distinct pipe designs not found in factory catalogs.

What a fascinating blend of Danish, American, and even French styles this pipe is. The bowl’s freehand shaping is, of course, Scandinavian in origin, allowing for the expression of some truly extraordinary straight grain; yet the pipe’s virgin blonde stain and golden acrylic stem point to a far more American attitude toward color composition in pipe design. Despite being a Danish-American freehand, however, there is still something of the classical cherrywood to its tipsy sitting figure, albeit one updated with a conical bent and a bare plateau rim.

The condition is great. Some inner rim darkening.

 

Details:

Length: 4.8″ / 121.9mm

Bowl Width: 0.93 / 23.62mm

Bowl Depth: 1.62″ / 41.14mm

Weight: 2.0oz / 58g