Alexa Pipes

Alexa Pipes is a one-man workshop run under his own nickname by Serbian woodworker Dragomir Aleksić. Aleksić was born in 1956 in Belgrade's Zemun district and trained as an engineer; according to his personal résumé he completed his degree in agricultural machinery in 1980. This measurement- and bench-based technical grounding, combined with the woodcarving he pursued for years as a hobby, forms the two threads that shape the workshop's identity today.

From Engineering to Carving

The year Aleksić changed direction was 1995; by his own account, this is when he made woodworking his main profession, beginning to work as a designer and carver at a workshop producing period-style furniture. Portfolio records show that during this period he made sculpture, church commissions, ornamentation, and interior work — meaning that before coming to pipes, he spent a long time observing how wood behaves at both large and small scale.

Pipe making was added on top of this accumulated experience only later. The sources do not record exactly which year he began this work; what is known is that from the late 2000s his pipes reached a wide circle through his own website and social media accounts. Aleksić has been known as an independent pipe maker since that time.