Brebbia Linea Varese Patent 402 Panel Sitter Estate Briar Pipe, Unsmoked

Description

Named for the company’s home township, Brebbia was founded in 1953 by Enea Buzzi, an alum of Savinelli’s manufacturing division. Still in operation 70 years later, Brebbia is one of Italy’s oldest extant pipe companies, with production still being undertaken using simple lathes and traditional methods of hand finishing. More recently, Brebbia has also collaborated with master artisan carvers from across to design some of its pipes, such as Denmark’s Rainer Barbi, Germany’s Otto Pollner and Holger Frickert, Italy’s Fausto Fincato, and Japan’s Tsuge.

Though long out of production, Brebbia’s Linea Varese looks to have been the company’s answer to popular Italian, pebble-dash finishes such as those of Savinelli (such as the Rock Grain, Capri, and Corallo) and Castello (such as the Sea Rock Briar or, in this instance, the Old Sea Rock). Despite this implicit play on trends in Italian pipe making at the time, the Linea Varese was nevertheless highly distinct, thanks in no small part to the unique shapes Brebbia offered. This one, a somewhat architectural panel sitter, is certainly very different to anything put out by Brebbia’s contemporaneous competitors, and is all the better for it.

This pipe is also completely unsmoked, with an original bowl coating.

 

Details:

Length: 6″ / 152.4mm

Bowl Width: 0.83 / 21.08mm

Bowl Depth: 1.56″ / 39.62mm

Weight: 2.1oz / 62g