Grunewald Pipes

Grunewald Pipes is a small handmade pipe bench American Paul Greenwood founded in Indiana in 2022. Rather than being a continuation of a classic workshop tradition, the brand was born to answer a specific imaginative world: Greenwood noticed at pipe shows that no examples resembled the pipes depicted in The Lord of the Rings, and decided to fill that gap at his own bench. The bench is presented as a father-and-son venture he runs together with his son, Chris.

Founding

By Greenwood's account, he returned to pipes in early 2022 after a long gap, and that same spring attended a pipemaking seminar held as part of the Chicago Pipe Show together with his son. This seminar was the pair's first experience of making a pipe. The brand was founded that same year, and its promotion has run largely through social media accounts. In trade records, the bench appears as a limited liability company at an address in Martinsville, Indiana; whether the workshop actually operates at this address has not been confirmed by independent records.