Wandi Riyadi Smooth Mushroom Dublin w/ Cumberland Handmade Briar Pipe, New

Description

Over the last decade or so, Indonesia has produced some impressive pipe makers in the ever-expanding global artisan scene. Since taking up pipe making in 2013, West Java’s Wandi Riyadi has shot to international acclaim, and has even inspired something of a “Riyadi school” back in his native land. Riyadi’s work has been inspired by Scandinavinan masters, such as Sixten Ivarsson, Lars Ivarsson, Bo Nordh, and Jess Chonowitch, and the Japanese master Hiroyuki Tokutomi. As gestured, Riyadi himself has also become an influence for numerous other artisans both home and abroad, and has even joined the ranks of pipe makers such as J. Alan, David Huber, Alex Florov, and Cornelius Manz in being invited to design pipes for Zhang Guo Hui’s GH.ZHANG project.

Taking cues from the calabash-Dublin hybrids of Jess Chonowitsch and the highly organic forms of the late Hiroyuki Tokutomi, this particular pipe from Wandi Riyadi is perhaps closest to the minor staple in pipe design known as the “mushroom.” Combining a slightly squat stature, the Dublin’s conical bowl, and the calabash’s rounded, almost “overflowing” rim, the result is a figure that, as implied by the name, “mushrooms” as it progresses up and outwards from its base. Fruits and flowers are generally very fitting models for briar pipes, but shapes such as this one seem particularly well suited for certain plateaux blocks. It is not simply that “mushroom” shapes provide a good canvas for exhibiting the snaking contours of briar grain, but that such shapes embody, in a very pure way, the processes expansion undergone by briar root in its living state.

 

Details:

Length: 4.7″ / 119.3mm

Bowl Width: 0.78 / 19.81mm

Bowl Depth: 1.45″ / 36.83mm

Weight: 2.2oz / 64g