Rafael Arzuaga Pipe
Discover Rafael Arzuaga and his artisanal pipe production
Rafael Arzuaga is a Cuban craftsman who began his self-taught pipe production.
Together with his wife Zuzel Rodriguez Rivero who takes care of the finishing and finishing touches of these handcrafted tobacco pipes.
Immediately after his military service Arzuaga was fascinated by the world of tobacco pipes and began his production driven only by his passion, improving day by day and surpassing himself every day with increasingly personal creations, developing his own personal style.
His production is the result of self-taught study that takes him from the simple bamboo productions that he enjoyed creating with his friends during his adolescence to the works of art that he creates today.
Discover Rafael Arzuaga's models on Pipeonline
Rafael Arzuaga's tobacco pipes are a transposition of his love for life and for his island: Cuba.
In his twenty-year career, Rafael Arzuaga has dedicated his production above all to the forms of nature, music and femininity, producing models with sinuous and delicate lines that are able to enhance the material and his artisanal vision.
His creativity flows directly into his models producing unique looking free form tobacco pipes.
His models are an experimentation with unique hobs and torches that are articulated in mouthpieces worthy of his shapes.
Discover the first choice materials for your next tobacco pipes
Come and discover Rafael Arzuaga's production on Pipeonline and let yourself be won over by the choice of materials.
In fact, Arzuaga tobacco pipes are produced with Granadillo wood which allows for a wide variety of shades of color when polished, going from a dark color to a shade of gold.
The second material most used by Arzuaga is heather, a light wood plant typical of Cuba and Catalonia. It is a type of wood that allows great versatility and ability to create unique pieces.