Most of the pics are not my style. Way to Danish inspired.
In my mind, the designs are a classical evolution of squat English pipes.
Although the Danes make a lot of tomatos or apples or acorns, all those basic shapes originated in England (or possibly France) and looking through vintage Dunhill catalogues it is clearly evident, you don't see many of those pre-war pipes around these days though it seems, they're pretty scarce.
The Danes, in my eyes, approach these squashed shapes with a more angular, mathematical, and clinical style in many cases --- there are exceptions of course, and anyway it's a sort of universal design language. Almost all of the classic shapes that we think of as "English" are actually French, and so it goes.
Looking at this thread you can note variant approaches:
http://pipesmagazine.com/forums/topic/the-lovely-squash-of-low-slung-squatters
...sadly, the Rad Davis pipe images are missing because I had hot-linked directly to his site,
which is now down.
The Italian style is much more natural, organic, fluid, and curvaceous,
at least in my eyes.
I like creative and unconventional approaches just as much as I appreciate the conservative classics,
maybe I'm just an oddball?
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Regardless,
in the end we all find what fits for us, personally, and that's the main thang,
and somehow for some reason it is also very enjoyable to talk about it all and share our perspectives with each other.
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