C-Pipe Smooth Apple w/ Bamboo & Boxwood Handmade 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.

Bamboo comes in all shapes and sizes (or, at least, a very large number of them), giving pipe makers a great variety to select from when designing their similarly varied works. This apple from C-Pipe, for example, uses a slightly thicker species of bamboo than is most common in pipe making, as a means of complementing a similarly plump apple bowl. The result is a very nicely composed, especially when accounting for the bowl’s copious flame grain. At around 5.3 inches and 1.4 ounces, it’s well-suited for taking out and about, and perhaps even showing off, too.

 

Details:

Length: 5.3″ / 134.6mm

Bowl Width: 0.72 / 18.28mm

Bowl Depth: 1.23″ / 31.24mm

Weight: 1.4oz / 40g