{"product_id":"nobdesigns-amigos-de-partagas-20th-aniversario-ashtray","title":"Nobdesigns × Amigos de Partagás — 20th Aniversario Ashtray","description":"\u003cp\u003eFor twenty years, a town of nine thousand people in the hills of the Marche has hosted the largest gathering of Habanos aficionados outside Cuba. Matelica is smaller than a single city block in most capitals. Every summer it fills with cigar lovers from all over the world. On 4 July 2026, at the Grand Gala Dinner of the 20th Aniversario, this was placed in the hands of the guests.\u003cbr\u003eThe form comes from our cast iron ashtray, developed with techniques inspired by Nambu tekki — the ironware of Iwate, cast continuously for some four hundred years. Iron holds a shape by force. Clay does not. Taking the same silhouette into high-fired ceramic means handing it to a kiln that fights it: at temperature the body moves, and an elongated oval this shallow, carried on a foot this narrow, rarely leaves the fire true.\u003cbr\u003eSo every piece is set on a level and checked by hand for symmetry. Roughly one in three passes. The rest are destroyed. This is not a marketing device. It is what the object costs.\u003cbr\u003eIt seats one cigar. Not four. A single raised rest, and a pedestal foot that lifts the cigar clear of the linen — because a cigar at a gala table is not something you park while you attend to something else.\u003cbr\u003eCobalt glaze, with a fine white line where it breaks over the rim. The 20th Aniversario mark of the Encuentro Amigos de Partagás en Italia in the bowl; the Nobdesigns mark on the wall.\u003cbr\u003eA single production run, made once, for the twentieth Encuentro. It is not part of the Nobdesigns catalogue and will not be made again.\u003cbr\u003eWidth 18 cm (20 cm with cigar rest) · Depth 8 cm · Height 4.5 cm (6 cm with cigar rest) · Weight approx. 300g\u003cbr\u003eNobdesigns, Tokyo.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Katana","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48124968861954,"sku":null,"price":9999.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0757\/8832\/1026\/files\/AmigosdePartagas20th-1.jpg?v=1784057647","url":"https:\/\/katanacutter.com\/products\/nobdesigns-amigos-de-partagas-20th-aniversario-ashtray","provider":"Katana","version":"1.0","type":"link"}