Renew the Redwood is Empire Glassworks' 6.5-inch Mini Tube — a compact borosilicate water pipe carrying hand-sculpted redwood forest detail, right down to the owl and mushrooms worked into the glass. It's art glass you can actually keep in rotation instead of parking on a shelf, made for someone who wants their daily piece to be a conversation.
Empire builds each of these by hand, so the figurine work is the point — this is lampworked detail scaled down to a tube you can hold. The glass is UV-reactive and glows in the dark, so the redwood scene shifts under blacklight and after the lights drop. At its price it sits in premium mid-tier territory, and that's fair: you're paying for individually crafted art, not a mass-molded tube.
The compact format keeps water filtration and function intact while staying easy to store and travel with. If you care about glass that looks like it came out of a studio, this is that.
Specs
- Type: Mini tube water pipe
- Height: 6.5 inches
- Width: 3.5 inches
- Material: Lampworked borosilicate glass
- Detail: Hand-sculpted redwood, owl and mushroom figurine work
- Finish: UV-reactive, glow-in-the-dark
- Build: Individually handcrafted art piece
Browse more hand-detailed glass on the products page, see what else Empire makes on the Empire Glassworks hub, or step up in size with the Prism Sunflower Beaker.