High Style: The Art of Cannabis Pipes

High Style is the first book to present the history and subculture of artist-made glass cannabis pipes in context. Since emerging as an art form in the underground scene of Grateful Dead concerts in the 1980s and 1990s, glass cannabis pipes have grown into an enduring—and surprisingly ubiquitous—feature of the contemporary landscape.

Today, contemporary pipemaking has an incredibly large following while still largely operating under the radar of mainstream culture. Its practitioners are considered folk heroes and art stars to legions of online and in-person followers. Pipe exhibitions and festivals occur across the country with regularity, attended by a highly dedicated fandom.

With unparalleled access to this reclusive field, and essays by leading scholars of the Grateful Dead, cannabis history, 21st-century psychedelic art and glass pipes, High Style explores the origins and development of the field, demonstrating its aesthetic diversity and its intersections with other American subcultures, from skateboarding and graffiti to Burning Man and Rainbow Gatherings.

Edited with text by Susie J. Silbert
Additional texts by Boroccentric, Hillary Brenhouse, Brian “Box” Brown, David Colton, Chris S. Duvall, Marble Slinger, Nicholas G. Meriwether, Pyroscopic, and Whitebread
Managing Editor: the great Stephanie Rozman
Published by Marquand Books and the Toledo Museum of Art
Design by My Linh Trieu Nguyen of Studio LHOOQ
Typography by Eazy fonts
Supported by The Center for Craft
And the voices, hands + minds of so many who built this scene

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