C-Pipe Tan Sandblasted Poker w/ Horn 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.

Thanks to functionalist champions such as Tom Eltang, the humble poker has remained in vogue in the world of handmade pipes despite the overwhelming tendency toward more “Danish” designs. Here we find the artisans of the C-Pipe Studio workshop offering their own poker revival, though in a very different precedent. Fans of the great English pipes of the 20th century might recognize this shape as being a distinct variation on the poker, sometimes known as the “Don,” owing to an old Dunhill design. This one breaks from the Dunhill mold by hybridizing the Don poker with more contemporary approaches, keeping the former’s short shank, ferrule (here, horn, rather than vulcanite) and long stem, while adding some extra height to the bowl—and, in turn, a more generous chamber.

Details:

Length: 6.5″ / 165.1mm

Bowl Width: 0.80 / 20.32mm

Bowl Depth: 1.73″ / 43.94mm

Weight: 1.4oz / 42g