C-Pipe Smooth Tomato w/ Bamboo & Ebonite 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.

Not unlike another C-Pipe listed recently, this one is an ultralight, neoclassical rendition of a tomato shape, distinguished by the drastic curvature that follows from button to bowl. In this instance, the profile is closer to a traditional 3/4 bend, though is still helped along a little further by way of bamboo and a stabilizing ferrule cut from ebonite.

 

Details:

Length: 5″ / 127.0mm

Bowl Width: 0.74 / 18.79mm

Bowl Depth: 0.93″ / 23.62mm

Weight: 0.9oz / 28g