It’s a big week for the popular brand Puffco. They quickly sold out of VIP tickets for the next iteration of Puffcon, and they just released a new color drop for handheld Pivot. However, the hottest release from Puffco to Leaf Magazines is still the two-color ceramic stunner called the Terrapipe.
Built to house the travel-sized Proxy unit, the Terrapipe fits comfortably into your hand and debuts with two beautiful glazing options: Matcha Green and Chestnut Brown. Chic with a touch of that bougie craft-fair aesthetic, you could pop a tiny succulent in the bowl, hide it on your desk in plain sight, and nobody would ever know.
According to Puffco’s Chief Technology Officer Avi Bajpai, the idea for the Terrapipe came about due to the limitations Puffco has faced in mass-producing glass. “There are only a handful of colors available at the scale we need, and the types of shapes we can make with handmade/blown glass manufacturing is constrained,” Bajpai said. The countless glazing options ceramics offer, along with the ability to slip-cast a variety of shapes, presents an elegant solution to the challenge of creating newer physical manifestations for the Proxy. “The Terrapipe is a shape that cannot be made out of glass at scale.”
The shape is the brainchild of Tanner Wills, senior industrial designer for Puffco. Wills said he took inspiration for the Terrapipe from an elephant-shaped porcelain candle holder he was gifted by CEO Roger Volodarsky. He originally designed the Terrapipe through a process of sketching and digital modeling. “I really just wanted something very unique looking from the stock pipe it comes with to showcase the Proxy’s ability to transform,” Wills said.
The Terrapipe hits quite well and has the charm of those vintage bird whistles for kids. This new attachment could inspire people to look more at ceramic shells for their Proxy.
Along with solving the issues with production scaling and providing innovation from within the company, Bajpai said the Terrapipe was also created for consumers who are less enthusiastic about collecting glass. “We also felt like heady glass may be turning away certain types of customers, and ceramics would fit better within their home environments,” Bajpai said. There are endless glazes and techniques that ceramic artists can employ, which makes the Terrapipe another jumping-off point for artists to raise the visual profile of the Proxy to new heights.
