Emilano Smooth Olifant Horn w/ Fossilized Mammoth Ivory Handmade Briar Pipe, New

Description

There are many nations in South America with vibrant pipe smoking scenes and, in recent years, these nations have produced a good number of artisan pipe makers of the highest caliber. Or, rather, it might be better to say that the internationalization of artisan pipes afforded by the internet has afforded these artisans the global recognition they rightly deserve. In any case, Brazil is among the most notable hubs for high-grade handmade pipes today, being home to Gustavo Cunha of marTelo pipes and Flavia Rodriguez, and having been the birthplace of Luiz Lavos. Of course, any mention of Brazilian pipes these days would be woefully incomplete without a mention of Emanuel de Queiroz Emiliano, better known in the pipe world as—simply—Emiliano.

Emiliano had always been a pipe smoker, but his exposure to the works of the aforementioned Cunha and Rodrigues planted the proverbial seed for Emiliano’s own career as an artisan pipe maker. He began carving pipes in his spare time and, soon enough, was in regular correspondence with figures such as Luiz Lavos, Angelo Fassi, and Angelo del Prete, aka Il Cerchio, who guided Emiliano in the early development of his craft. Emiliano would later travel to Italy to visit both Fassi and del Prete in their workshops, who generously spent time with the former helping him master the finer details of constructing a high-grade pipe. Emiliano’s own pipes are greatly inspired by Scandinavian pipe making, such as the works of Danish master Tom Eltang, and others in the global post-Scandinavian scene, such as Chris Asteriou. But there is also often something quite “Brazilian” in his work—something shared with Cunha, Rodrigues, and Lavos—which is often expressed through his approach to shaping, finishing, and his choice of accents.

In this instance, Emiliano has chosen to keep things classic—at least, classic from the standpoint of artisan pipe making. There’s a reason that Emiliano was invited to participate in the most recent SmokingPipes exposition, whose theme was an explicit honoring of pipe making legends from from decades past: he is simply excellent when it comes to producing renditions of iconic Scandinavian designs. Here we see Emiliano masterfully take on the Oliphant (sometimes spelled “Oliphant”), an extremely difficult horn shape that was more or less co-created by Sixten Ivarsson and Bo Nordh. The shape’s difficulty, however, is matched by its beauty when properly carved. As seen here, the Olifant is capable of making full use of briar’s natural cross-grain (at its paneled flanks) and bird’s-eye (on its top and underside) patterns.

 

Details:

Length: 5.9″ / 149.8mm

Bowl Width: 0.74 / 18.79mm

Bowl Depth: 1.41″ / 35.81mm

Weight: 1.4oz / 42g