Winslow (Poul Winsløw)

Winslow is the workshop bearing the name of Danish pipe maker Poul Winsløw, working in Hvidovre, one of Copenhagen's southern suburbs. Winsløw's work belongs to the freehand wing of Danish School design; what sets the brand apart from other names of the same generation is not so much the search for form in the body as the richness of color and inlay used on the surface and shank.

Training at the Holm Workshop

Winsløw's introduction to pipes came at a factory door. He applied when Preben Holm's workshop in Copenhagen was looking for an apprentice, and was taken on at just seventeen; sources place this start in the late 1960s. He rose quickly through the production line, and by age twenty-two was foreman of a staff of forty-five. In the autobiography Holm wrote in 1983, when he speaks with praise of the journeyman he took on as practically a child and trained himself, it is Winsløw he means. That a third of his salary kept being paid throughout his military service is cited as further proof of this regard; the aim was to make sure he would return to the bench after discharge. When American interest in freehand pipes waned and Holm's illness worsened, the factory disbanded its staff in 1985; Winsløw was among those who lost their jobs.