An 18-inch love letter to Los Angeles
MAV Glass has been blowing and shipping glass out of Los Angeles for over a decade, and the Top City Los Angeles Beaker is the piece where the brand stops being subtle about it.
This is MAV's classic 18-inch beaker platform — the format the brand built its reputation on — wrapped in a custom LA-inspired decal that pulls the city's icons onto the glass: a hometown piece for anyone whose relationship with cannabis runs through the West Coast.
At $109 direct from MAV's LA headquarters, it comes fully equipped rather than stripped: a 5-inch downstem and 14mm bowl are in the box, an ice pinch is built into the neck, and the 5-inch-diameter base plants it firmly on the table. It is the rare city-tribute product that is a legitimate daily driver first and merch second — because underneath the decal, it is simply a well-built MAV beaker.
Specs
- Height: 18 inches tall
- Base: 5-inch diameter beaker for stability
- Joint: 19mm female
- Downstem: 5-inch, included
- Bowl: 14mm, included
- Extras: ice pinch in the neck; unique LA-inspired MAV decal
- Made by: MAV Glass, based in Los Angeles, California — 10+ years in the industry, packed and shipped from their LA HQ
- Price: $109.00, in stock direct from MAV at time of sourcing
The Top City LA is built for the classic beaker loyalist — the smoker who has tried the percs, the recyclers, and the gadgets and keeps coming back to a tall beaker with an ice pinch because the formula just works. Eighteen inches of height gives the smoke real distance to cool, the beaker base holds serious water volume, and a stack of cubes on the pinch turns a big rip into a genuinely cold one.
It is equally at home as a first proper bong: everything you need ships in the box, the wide base survives coffee-table life, and replacement downstems and bowls in these standard sizes are available everywhere. And obviously, it is the piece for anyone repping Los Angeles — whether you are LA born and raised or just want a piece of the city's smoke culture on your shelf, this is a legitimately functional way to fly the flag.
Apartment dwellers with low shelves, note the height; this piece stands tall.
Plenty of brands slap a city graphic on glass and call it a collector's item at double the price. MAV's version wins because the tribute sits on top of the brand's bread-and-butter product rather than replacing it.
MAV's 18-inch classic beaker is the piece the brand says many collections start with, refined across more than ten years of production in LA — and the Top City edition keeps that identical functional package: 19mm joint, included hardware, ice pinch, stable 5-inch footprint. At $109, you are paying roughly standard MAV beaker money for the hometown edition, which makes it a genuine value rather than a novelty tax.
There is also the authenticity angle: an LA tribute bong actually made by an LA glass company, packed and shipped from an LA warehouse, hits different from an offshore graphic print. MAV frames the piece as bringing tacos, palm trees, and sunshine to your sesh, and the execution backs the talk. City pride plus honest fundamentals is a winning formula.
Los Angeles is arguably the capital city of modern cannabis culture — the backdrop for half a century of stoner cinema, the home turf of the legal market's biggest brands, and the place where West Coast glass, streetwear, and music scenes all overlap. MAV Glass grew up inside that ecosystem, building glass in LA for the community around it, and the Top City series is the brand putting its zip code on the product.
That matters in a market where authenticity is the scarcest resource: the same way a skate brand's hometown deck means more than a licensed graphic, a hometown beaker from an actual LA glassworks carries a story a generic import cannot.
For The High Rise Co's catalog — which lives and breathes West Coast cannabis culture — this piece is almost a mission statement in glass form: an affordable, honest, LA-made-and-shipped daily driver that turns city pride into something you can actually pass around the circle. Pieces like this are why regional glass identity keeps getting stronger.