Xin Li
Xin Li (b. 1980) is a Chinese artisan pipe-maker currently working under the name Xin Pipes. He is a graduate of China's Central Academy of Fine Arts (Chinese: 中央美术学院) as well as Germany's University of Münster (German: Universität Münster),where he pursued studies in industrial design and art history respectively. Xin is currently based in Hangzhou, in China's eastern Zhejiang province.
Xin began his pipe-making career in 2015 as an apprentice to fellow Chinese artisan Yang Zhimin, where he made pipes for Yang's Zhiputang workshop. In 2019, Li left the Zhiputang workshop to create pipes under his own name.
To date, Xin's pipes have been sold at PipeHub, SATX Pipe, and LePipe.It.
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Xin Li Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/xinpipes/