House of Puff: Smoke in Style
Originally featured in Fat Nugs Magazine Reviews
Cannabis consumers and connoisseurs are always looking for new smoke accessories to add to their kit. Whether it be a different style, color or innovation on well-known tools, it is common practice to keep on improving your smoke sesh. There are various setups needed; your coffee table layout may differ from the travel bag or the desk setup. I’ve been using a little trifecta from House of Puff that I’d like to discuss today including the hemp wick holder, an ashtray and a one-hitter. These pieces are all handmade stoneware with a food-safe glaze. The feel is excellent in hand and looks stylish nestled together on my desk!
House of Puff is a women-owned, Latina-led company based in NYC. Founders, Kristina Lopez and Holly Hager, met at Art Basel in Miami, and the rest is history. They’ve created a lineup of accessories that blend form, function and social impact, harnessing the power of “art as an agent of social change.” They’re on a mission to empower and reduce the stigma around cannabis consumption with high-quality handmade stoneware smoke accessories, “puffware”, with values of wellness, style and social justice. The refined products they create are designed in-house with artist collaborators. Their attention to detail creates a beautiful product that wouldn’t look out of place in the finest kitchen, office or interior-designed space.
House of Puff does not include any additives like ink, bleach or pesticides to create a healthy product ready for use. With Kristina and Holly’s background in art, the style is on point and subtle. The color options for their pieces include the Mickalene Marigold I have along with Gentileschi Green, O’Keefe Camellia, Adela Lavender, Birgit Blue, Bourgeois Black, Van der Beek Violet, Signature Pink and Galactic White. Outside of the black, white and pink options, each color includes the name of a female artist that has or continues to make impactful work, walking the walk and making a social impact all along the way. They also have a successful YouTube channel called At Home with House of Puff where Kristina tackles topics from dosing to homemade edibles and everything in between.
Let’s dig into the details on the pieces I’ve been using starting with the Astor Hemp Wick Holder. Hemp wick is a great healthy alternative to lighters and matches replacing the chemicals found in them with healthy beeswax-covered hemp. Hemp wick also burns at a lower temperature, so you can avoid scorching those delicious terpenes before you get to taste them and ensure an even burn. Before this, I would end up wrapping hemp-wick around a lighter or something else around the house. As they describe it, this macaroon-like holder allows you to store and replace the wick in a clean and tidy manner. Being glazed stoneware, it has a great weight in hand and a smooth tactile feel that wins me over. It comes loaded already with 10’ of organic European hemp finished with beeswax created by a Latin-owned company called Handmade by Hippies in Florida.
The hemp wick holder sits perfectly in the included ashtray for storage and display. Again blending form and functionality, you have an ashtray that comes right along for the ride ready to deposit ash from the one-hitter or tap your joint against. It’s heavy and unglazed on the bottom to keep it in place wherever you set it. There is a small notch on it that allows a one-hitter, joint or blunt to set in the tray if/when needed. The two pieces come as a set for a reason. The center of the ashtray has a smaller ring where the hemp wick holder can be placed; this prevents it from sliding off the tray and looks great while doing so.
Last, but certainly not least, is the one hitter itself called Le Pipe. Four inches long and about ½ an inch wide, this sleek one-hitter can be taken anywhere quickly or stored nicely in the ashtray notch next to the hemp wick holder. It’s a shallow bowl allowing for easy consumption moderation and small tasty puffs that don’t leave unburned material needing another light. The piece has gentle curves evoking the feminine form. It’s subtle, lightweight and easy to clean and use. It fits in my sling well as a travel piece, and I can’t overstate the assistance with moderation. While one puff is rarely enough for me, it makes me more aware of the cannabis flower as I’m packing it between puffs. It has enough length to cool your hit down just a bit, whereas some one-hitters can be mighty hot on the inhale. I did drop this a few times by accident, but so far so good as the stoneware has held up well to regular use.
As I’m sure you can tell, I’m thoroughly enjoying these pieces as a cannabis connoisseur and would recommend them to anyone. House of Puff is knocking it out of the park with its accessories. If I could ask for anything more, a little tool to clean out the ashes from the one-hitter would be cool. I’ve been using a dab tool or toothpick with mine. Their lineup includes a few more items that I’ve yet to try like the match holder and striker combo, the cigarette/joint holder and a sleek tamping stick to pack your bowls. They also make a rolling tray, to help prepare flower, joint papers and a larger ashtray just as sophisticated as the rest.
The price point on these is medium-high ($28 Le Pipe, $58 Hemp Wick Holder & Ashtray), but the quality, story, values and functionality is worth it. I’ve been cleaning mine after each use to keep it spotless and ready to rock. The holidays are right around the corner as fall is approaching, so keep their gift sets in mind too. Check out the products at houseofpuff.com and connect with them on Instagram @thehouseofpuff and/or Youtube @AtHomeWithHouseofPuff. To hear the whole story and learn about the brand further, listen to episode 50 of the Apartment 113 Cannabis & Psychedelics Podcast on iTunes or Spotify.