HJ-09-011
Price: € 980
About the Item
SMOOTH LILY SMOKING PIPE WITH AMARANTH EXTENTION AND TAMPER
This beautiful shape of Lily was first introduced by master Alex Florov to the world of smoking pipe. Here, Andrey savenko carefully used a very high-grade briar and shaped it in a fantastic form of a Lily. The Lily offers a long Bowl with some charming bird-eye patterns on the right side. The Shank of the pipe is long and exhibits dazzling lines of thigh briar, which ends with a red Amaranth ring. Extension from the Heel of the Lily pipe is composed of briar and nice red Amaranth. This is also an example of self-standing model. Lily can perfectly stand on two standpoints: Foot and Heel extension.
This pipe comes with its own tamper, which is carved by the master. The tamper is perfectly matches with the general shape and structure of the pipe and emphasizes on the general idea of Lily form.
About the Artist
Andrey Savenko or so called SAVA was born in 1970 in the city named Orel, in Russia. He starts carving briar smoking pipes since 2009. Soon his perfect three-dimensional complex works become popular. He is deeply influenced by the nature and gets a lot of his brilliant ideas from it. Within the year 2009 and 2011 he designed and carved around 100 pipes. Soon he understands his talent in carving the pipes. He begins with drawing the shapes, makes the rough structure, evaluate his idea and finally transition to polish and uses wax to fix and gets the final result.
His creations do not show any path or direct line, he carves what he likes and based on his inspiration. However, nature is his master and most of his beautiful creations exhibit the essence of the nature. Just after 6 years carving the briar, his works get a specific style based on the complexity, creativity, and wonderful finish. With no doubt he carved some of the most complex, three-dimensional structure of freehands. His creations are mostly comes with fitting tamper and in this case make his work more and more unique. Moreover, his strong ability to work and form the horn, metal, and ivory gives him this chance to decorate some of his pipes with these luxury components.
Most of his works express the absolute attention in details with the great shape and stunning finish. You definitely find all of his work at the first glance a kind of mind-blowing creations. Anybody who appreciates the beauty of the smoking pipe admits his perfect work. Here, we offer you some of the best works by this Russian genius pipe maker. We are sure that the variety of his works can satisfy almost all of pipe maker's taste.