Brakner (Peter Brakner)

Brakner is a Danish name that emerged within Copenhagen's handmade pipe scene in the postwar years, owing its fame almost entirely to a single surface treatment. The master's civil name was Peter Micklson; he later changed his surname to Brakner and stamped his pipes under that name. Neither his birth year nor his death date is clear in the records; his output, however, is dated to the early cohort of what is known as the Danish School.

Workshop Circle

He entered the trade at Suhr's Pibemageri in Copenhagen, that is, the Teofil Suhr workshop. That workshop's foreman at the time was Sixten Ivarsson, who shaped the design language of Danish pipemaking. According to a piece of information passed down in pipe literature, Brakner is said to have facilitated Poul Rasmussen's entry into the workshop, showing him the basic fundamentals of the craft in a short, intensive course; since this detail rests only on secondary sources, it should be treated with caution. Brakner's period working for someone else did not last long; he went into production under his own name at an early date.