La Biota Morta Bent Dublin Handmade Pipe, New

Description

A graduate of Italy’s prestigious Academia della Pipa, Michele Sottocasa has been making pipes for over a decade under the la Biota name. Prior to becoming a pipe-maker, Sottocasa trained and worked as a designer and art director, and la Biota pipes continue this drive towards a distinct aesthetic vision. The name, ‘la Biota,’ originally derives from ecology, and symbolizes the deep connection between humans and nature – a connection well represented by the hand-made tobacco pipe.

This pipe from la Biota is a sturdy Dublin shape, carved from millennia-old bog oak, otherwise known as morta. To this, Sottocasa has added a ring of Fordite and a hand-cut blue ebonite stem. The pipe is a little fuller in the hand than many of Sottocasa’s pipes, which makes it very comfortable to sit and sip at.

All la Biota pipes are made by hand by Michele Sottocasa in his workshop in the mountainous Northern region of Italy. Sottocasa prefers the wood lathe over the metal lathe traditionally used by pipe-makers, which he uses to painstakingly hand-shape each la Biota bowl, and hand-cut each la Biota stem. As Sottocasa strives to make each la Biota pipe unique and does not like to repeat shapes and design choices he has made in the past, every la Biota pipe is one of a kind – once it is gone, it is gone forever.

Details:

Length: 5.4″

Bowl Width: 19.7mm

Bowl Depth: 1.5″

Weight: 1.8oz / 52g