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Smoker's Delight: The Porsche Hookah

By Rain Noe - July 20, 2011

in Object Culture

This morning, just a few blocks from the Core77 offices in downtown Manhattan, I passed what appears to be a Porsche Design retail space or gallery being prepared. Which made me curious, as it's been a while since I'd heard about their consumer products. After arriving at the computer I Googled around to see what they've been up to recently, and found what you see above.

I guess we can't really call it a bong unless we want to lawyer up, so we'll name the object above what Porsche Design does: A Shisha, a/k/a water pipe. The extraordinary Porsche Design Shisha combines high-quality materials such as aluminium, stainless steel and glass with the timeless and unique design approach of the luxury brand. Puristic and stylish at the same time. The Porsche Design Shisha is made in Germany and stands at a height of 55 centimetres. It only shows a discreet branding on the aluminium top of the Shisha and comes with a long flexible tube made out of TecFlex material, which is also used for the classic Porsche Design TecFlex writing tools.

I just wasted ten minutes coming up with a list of headlines like "Objects Weed Love to See..." and "Sweetening the Pot is This New..." before realizing, all it takes is one angry Teutonic-accented phone call and my ass is fired.

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Glen

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THANK YOU, JOE!
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Joe

13 years ago

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Why the obsession with weed? This is clearly a hookah and not a bong, and there's a reason people don't smoke weed out of hookahs.
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  Yeah no shit man, I smoke shisha out of my hookah lol Not weed.
  As a matter of fact, I'm looking at this hookah to maybe but in our road trip van with an electric adapter for the heating element.
  
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Alex

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Shisha is a type of tobacco that is smoked out of a hookah. The device above looks very much like a modern designed hookah pipe that you would smoke said tobacco out of. Of course weed can be smoked out of it, but it can also be smoked out of a can, fruit, and plenty of other objects but I don't see them being advertised as paraphernalia.
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Matt

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"I guess we can't really call it a bong unless we want to lawyer up"

What do drugs have to do with shisha? Damned Americans have to think everything is to do with drugs...
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