C-Pipe Sandblasted Apple w/ Crazy Bamboo & Boxwood Briar Pipe, New

Description

Not unlike certain 20th century Western pipe making institutions, such as Charatan, Pibe-Dan, or WO Larsen, a number of workshops in China have emerged in the 21st century filled with artisans working under a single banner. This includes GH Zhang, Qi Pipe Studio, and C-Pipe. With C-Pipe, however, there is something of a difference. Founded by former architect and lifelong pipe collector YiGang Wang, C-Pipe is a workshop of around a dozen artisans, most of whom originally came to pipe making from fields such as fine art and industrial design. While there are clear influences on C-Pipe’s output from various post-war schools, the workshop’s style is as varied as the individuals who work there. The resulting pipes reflect a synthesis of collective and individual creative endeavors, following a model closer to the ones pursued by Scandinavian post-war institutions, and which made artisan pipes what they are today.

This one, for example, is a highly distinctive rendition of a full bent apple. How it achieves such a drastic curvature is by way of a technique and material most famously utilized by Roman Kovalev of Doctor’s pipes. By fashioning a shank extension from a particular species of curled bamboo (as well as a stabilizing ferrule cut from boxwood), the pipe is able to achieve a profile close to that of an Oom Paul while still having a well-drilled draft hole.

 

Details:

Length: 5″ / 127.0mm

Bowl Width: 0.71 / 18.03mm

Bowl Depth: 1.41″ / 35.81mm

Weight: 1.5oz / 44g