HJ-15-005
Price: € 1450
About the Item
FREEHAND SMOKING PIPE SET WITH TAMPER
You've probably seen some of SAVA's fascinating freehand creations recently, and while they are always fantastic, surprising and different from each other over the last three years they've only developed. The occurrence of his work that show such beautifully complex combinations of line, form, acrobatic shape, negative space and wonderful finish has become more frequent. He knows how to use the negative space wisely to form the final result in a fantastic way and yet very practical and useful.
With his artful use of three-dimensional concept and his strong imagination he makes a highly sculptural freehand in a very elaborate and acrobatic manner of carving. Paying attention to the tight lines of briar, the artisan stained and finish this item with flamed-orange color and finally polish it with wax to get the final result . This dramatic shape of freehand comes with its own fitting tamper as a kit.
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.