Name: The Object: Cigar
Brand: Murmmr
Price: $1250 USD
Availability: InStock

The ashtray is the most neglected object in the library. Murmmr, a San Francisco design studio, decided it deserved the same obsession as the cigar itself.

The Object: Cigar is a dome of 5.6 pounds of mouth-blown Czech crystal, set over a base cut to cradle cigars up to a 74 ring gauge. Lower the dome over a resting cigar and it snuffs the smoke gently, starving it of oxygen instead of crushing it, so the cigar can be relit later without bitterness. While it rests, the trapped smoke coils inside the glass like weather.

Murmmr The Object: Cigar with its crystal dome lifted off the base — Fig. 3 The dome lifted: the crystal base and its brass tapper stand on their own.
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The making

It was developed with Brian Telford, the third-generation tobacconist behind Telford’s Pipe & Cigar in Mill Valley, and built by fifth-generation European makers: a Czech crystal foundry and a Bavarian glassworks whose client list includes Tiffany, Tom Dixon, and LVMH. The tapper is precision-milled German brass. The footing is hand-finished Portuguese cork.

A cigar resting on the brass tapper of Murmmr The Object: Cigar, seen close — Fig. 4 A cigar at rest on the precision milled brass tapper, with the cork inset ringing the base.
Photography courtesy of Murmmr

Detail of the crystal dome of Murmmr The Object: Cigar where it meets the base — Fig. 5 Where dome meets base: the crystal edge, the brass tapper and the cork footing in one detail.
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“Most ashtrays punish the ritual. This one elevates it.”

Murmmr The Object: Cigar on a wooden desk, a cigar resting under the dome — Fig. 6 In place on the desk, a cigar resting under the dome.
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Fifty sets, individually numbered, each with a letterpress Proof of Originality card. Murmmr keeps the matching half at its headquarters, so no copy can ever pass. Hand engraving of initials is complimentary.

The letterpress Proof of Originality card supplied with Murmmr The Object: Cigar — Fig. 7 The letterpress Proof of Originality card that travels with each numbered set.
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The blackened wooden crate in which Murmmr The Object: Cigar ships — Fig. 8 The custom wooden crate each set ships in.
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Napa Curator Recommended. Photography courtesy of the maker.

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