Md. Angga Wire Rusticated Pot w/ Bamboo & Ivorite Handmade Briar Pipe, New

Description

As with other forms of art and craft, pipe making has a curious tendency to “run in the family.” Denmark, of course, is famous for its pipe making dynasties, such as the successive generations of Ivarsson, Chonowitsch, and Balleby pipes. The same holds for the Morel family in France and the Blatter family in Canada. There are also instances where siblings make pipes together, such as in the cases of Blatter Bros and Vollmer & Nilsson. And there are also examples where two or more siblings from the same family will make pipes individually, as Sven Knudsen and Teddy Knudsen did before and after their brief Dantonian partnership.

This latter example is most apt to describe two brothers from Indonesia with seemingly genetic talents for pipe making: Wandi Riyadi and Md. Angga. While Angga has learned plenty from his brother Riyadi over the years, he’s also managed to step out of his brother’s increasingly large shadow and to carve his own path.

For this pipe, Angga has put his own spin on the traditional pot shape, with decidedly modern results. The bowl’s shaping is not unlike the “cauldron” shapes of, say, GBD, and also the earthenware-inspired forms seen in the pipes of Le Nuvole. But to this, Angga has added a wire-thin line rustication, which further emphasizes the bowl’s distinctive figure, as well as a bamboo shank extension, an ivorite accent, and pearls of polished horn within the bamboo’s nodes.

 

Details:

Length: 5.4″ / 137.1mm

Bowl Width: 0.72 / 18.28mm

Bowl Depth: 1.13″ / 28.70mm

Weight: 1.6oz / 48g