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'''Jens [[Tao]] Nielsen''' and '''Poul [[Ilsted]] Bech''' met each other when working together for Erik [[Nørding]] and soon became close friends. Both felt a bit tired to make nothing but bizarre fancy shapes and agreed they wanted to produce pipes of more style and more classicism. They decided to establish their own brand "Tao & Ilsted" - But how to do it? | '''Jens [[Tao]] Nielsen''' and '''Poul [[Ilsted]] Bech''' met each other when working together for Erik [[Nørding]] and soon became close friends. Both felt a bit tired to make nothing but bizarre fancy shapes and agreed they wanted to produce pipes of more style and more classicism. They decided to establish their own brand "Tao & Ilsted" - But how to do it? | ||
A good fortune brought them in contact with '''Henrik Jørgensen''', a passionate pipe lover and a wealthy Copenhagen banker who was willing to retire from bank business and change his career to become a pipemaker. The trio joined in 1969 and decided to start a new pipe brand together. Nielsen and Ilsted started to search for a suitable workshop while Jørgensen took care of the finances. In early 1970 the partners found an old, closed down pipe factory in Svendborg on Funen, and bought it shortly after for a mere 16.500 Danish Kroner. It was the earlier Nordic Pipe Factory – Nordisc Pibefabriker - maybe the oldest Danish pipe factory. And now it became the home of '''Svendborg Piber'''. | [[File:Svenborg SmoothBentBrandy.jpg|thumb|Smooth Bent Brandy, courtesy, [http://smokingpipes.com Smokingpipes.com]]]A good fortune brought them in contact with '''Henrik Jørgensen''', a passionate pipe lover and a wealthy Copenhagen banker who was willing to retire from bank business and change his career to become a pipemaker. The trio joined in 1969 and decided to start a new pipe brand together. Nielsen and Ilsted started to search for a suitable workshop while Jørgensen took care of the finances. In early 1970 the partners found an old, closed down pipe factory in Svendborg on Funen, and bought it shortly after for a mere 16.500 Danish Kroner. It was the earlier Nordic Pipe Factory – Nordisc Pibefabriker - maybe the oldest Danish pipe factory. And now it became the home of '''Svendborg Piber'''. | ||
The young team started with the common difficulties but success came quite rapidly after they travelled Germany in search of a distributor and met '''Detlef Seiffert''', senior partner of Seiffert Import Co., a major German wholesaler in Kassel. Seiffert, insisting on high quality standards, started placing considerable orders with the new factory and began to market the brand very sucessfully in Germany. Of course Seiffert - a relative of Harry Kapp, partner of Charles [[Peterson]] of the famous Dublin pipe house - used his international contacts to promote Svendborg furthermore. | The young team started with the common difficulties but success came quite rapidly after they travelled Germany in search of a distributor and met '''Detlef Seiffert''', senior partner of Seiffert Import Co., a major German wholesaler in Kassel. Seiffert, insisting on high quality standards, started placing considerable orders with the new factory and began to market the brand very sucessfully in Germany. Of course Seiffert - a relative of Harry Kapp, partner of Charles [[Peterson]] of the famous Dublin pipe house - used his international contacts to promote Svendborg furthermore. | ||
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Seiffert, focusing on their mainstay brand [[Sillem's]], sold Svendborg - a ghost brand now - again before 2000 and the current owner is Planta's [[Design Berlin]]. | Seiffert, focusing on their mainstay brand [[Sillem's]], sold Svendborg - a ghost brand now - again before 2000 and the current owner is Planta's [[Design Berlin]]. | ||
*'''[[File:Tao-Ilsted.pdf]] Old Tao - Ilsted from 1978 Catolog, courtesy [http://www.danishpipemakers.com/aboutpipes.html Danishpipemakers.com]''' | |||
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