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W.Ø. Larsen
A tobacconist founded in Copenhagen in 1864, which a century later became one of the training grounds of Danish pipe-making by opening its own pipe workshop, and closed in 2005.
W.Ø. Larsen is a Danish tobacconist founded in Copenhagen in 1864 that, a century later, opened its own pipe workshop and began to be known as a brand name. The shop on Strøget, the city's pedestrian street, became from the 1960s onward both a place where handmade Danish pipes were sold and a center where the generation that would make these pipes was trained.
Today its name is counted among the handful of addresses where the formal approach known as the Danish School became institutionalized.
The Tobacconist on Amagertorv
Wilhelm Øckenholt Larsen (1836-1919), who founded the business, was born in Randers; his middle name appears in sources in two different spellings, Øckenholt and Øckelholt. At twenty-eight, in 1864, he opened a tobacco shop and a cigar factory on Copenhagen's Amagertorv square. The shop came in time to be counted among the city's best-known tobacconists, and in 1913 received the royal purveyor (kgl. hofleverandør) title. The business stayed in the same family for generations; in this first century, pipes were only one of the goods sold.
The Shop's Own Workshop
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