C-Pipe XL Sandblasted Pencil Shank Stack w/ Brass 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.

This pipe, for example, shows a clear inspiration from a recent neoclassical revival in Danish and North American pipe making, oriented around distinctly narrow, or “pencil” shank shank pipes. Just as in Tom Eltang’s functionalist designs, the “Scottie” shapes of Scottie Piersel, or the “Bing” renditions of Greg Polla’s Merchant Service, this C-Pipe is an extra long yet extremely lightweight take on the traditional stack billiard, with a crisp, consistent, ring grain sandblast finish and a brass accent that nicely breaks up its relatively reserved color palette.

 

Details:

Length: 6.7″ / 170.1mm

Bowl Width: 0.74 / 18.79mm

Bowl Depth: 1.88″ / 47.75mm

Weight: 0.9oz / 26g