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Concentrating on more classical influenced shapes Karl Erik's style emphasized the wood over all other contributing factors by allowing the grain to determine the ultimate shape of the piece. He further emphasized the natural, organic, flowing shape of his bowls with hand cut stems and a broad variety of decorating materials. | Concentrating on more classical influenced shapes Karl Erik's style emphasized the wood over all other contributing factors by allowing the grain to determine the ultimate shape of the piece. He further emphasized the natural, organic, flowing shape of his bowls with hand cut stems and a broad variety of decorating materials. | ||
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Image:KE_65.jpg|Some still available @ [http://www.ff-pipes.com/piber.htm FF-Pipes] | Image:KE_65.jpg|Some still available @ [http://www.ff-pipes.com/piber.htm FF-Pipes] | ||
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'''New Grading:''' | '''New Grading:''' | ||
KE's new grading used numbers ascending from D to A. The unique "Ekstravagant" pipes C, B, A, AA to AAA. These superb pieces of remarkable quality were, almost certainly, the least expensive high-quality hand made pipes coming from Denmark today! | [[Image:KE6.jpg|right|225px|Named for a great pipemaker]] [[Image:Otten_04.jpg|right|225px|Ottendahl!]] | ||
KE's new grading used numbers ascending from D to A. The unique "Ekstravagant" pipes C, B, A, AA to AAA. These superb pieces of remarkable quality were, almost certainly, the least expensive high- quality hand made pipes coming from Denmark today! | |||
In the 90's he was honored by Stanwell to design some models for the very popular H.C. Anderson line which is named for the great Danish poet. | In the 90's he was honored by Stanwell to design some models for the very popular H.C. Anderson line which is named for the great Danish poet. | ||
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Around 1998/99 he traded the German rights to his brand name "Karl Erik" to Planta, better known as the proprietor of [[Design Berlin]] (db). Thus - though db copied the style of the old Karl Eriks pretty closely - a recent KE offered for sale in Germany is unfortunately about as Danish as Eisbein mit Sauerkraut. But eventhough Planta did one thing of merit: a series of pipe tobaccos was named for Karl Erik! | Around 1998/99 he traded the German rights to his brand name "Karl Erik" to Planta, better known as the proprietor of [[Design Berlin]] (db). Thus - though db copied the style of the old Karl Eriks pretty closely - a recent KE offered for sale in Germany is unfortunately about as Danish as Eisbein mit Sauerkraut. But eventhough Planta did one thing of merit: a series of pipe tobaccos was named for Karl Erik! | ||
'''Ottendahl?''' While everywhere else a Karl Erik pipe remained a Karl Erik pipe made by Karl Erik himself, he began signing some of his pipes with his family name "Ottendahl". The new label was strictly used to continue distributing his own pipes in Germany only! But as his Viking ancestors some Ottendahl pipes discovered a way to cross the pond and turned up in the United States. KE officially resumed sales to the USA after 13 years in 2000! This caused a certain confusion among US pipesmokers and some clever US pipetraders imputed the Ottendahls with a better quality than the usual Karl Erik pipes to take advantage of the favourable situation asking considerable higher prices for Ottendahl pipes. | '''Ottendahl?''' While everywhere else a Karl Erik pipe remained a Karl Erik pipe made by Karl Erik himself, he began signing some of his pipes with his family name "Ottendahl". The new label was strictly used to continue distributing his own pipes in Germany only! But as his Viking ancestors some Ottendahl pipes discovered a way to cross the pond and turned up in the United States. KE officially resumed sales to the USA after 13 years in 2000! This caused a certain confusion among US pipesmokers and some clever US pipetraders imputed the Ottendahls with a better quality than the usual Karl Erik pipes to take advantage of the favourable situation asking considerable higher prices for Ottendahl pipes. | ||