Smooth Paneled Bent Dublin (Jewel of Denmark) (A) Tobacco Pipe

Kai Nielsen is the son of the renowned founder of the Bari pipe factory, Viggo Nielsen. After spending much of his teenage years working in his father's factory, Kai began to work there full time at 21. It was at this factory where gained much of his sensibilities around the Danish style of pipe making as well as a plethora of artisanal experience. He has since accrued more than fifty years of experience and is now a well-respected artisan in his own right. Like many of his other pipes, this paneled bent Dublin from Kai Nielsen eschews many of the shaping standards that tend to define the traditional shape while still maintaining a Danish aesthetic.

Firm ridgelines throughout the pipe clearly demarcate four crisp panels around the bowl and two for the shank. The shank's flat bottom panel blends into the front wall of the bowl, creating a graceful curve that underscores the pipe from the front rim to the half-saddle stem's chastely bent bit. Such a curve balances the forward-surging motion of the bowl for a comfortable jaw-hanging posture. The parabolic curve of the shank's upper panel meets the bowl's flat back wall with defined dimples. When viewing the pipe from an aerial perspective, one can see that the bowl maintains Opera-like dimensions, being longer front to back than it is wide.