C-Pipe Smooth Tomato Nosewarmer 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.

The artisans at Shanghai’s C-Pipe workshop make liberal use of bamboo in their designs, and with pipes like this one, it’s not hard to see why. A squat tomato nosewarmer in both the traditional and Scandinavian vein, the pipe uses a mixture of golden bamboo and boxwood to offset the contrast tones of its bowl and jet-black ebonite stem, and to reduce the pipe’s overall weight even further than it would otherwise be. The result is a beautiful little nosewarmer, one perfectly suited for clenching when the situation demands it.

Details:

Length: 5.0″ / 127mm

Bowl Width: 0.72 / 18.28mm

Bowl Depth: 0.93″ / 23.62mm

Weight: 1.1oz / 32g