The Danish Pipe Shop in Copenhagen, Denmark

(Nikolaj Liberoth Nielsen) My father, Steffen Nielsen, moved his way as a clerk into the tobacco shops of Copenhagen in the 1960’s. Soon he became the first man at The Company of Poul Hansen located at the famous pedestrian street, Strøget, and in 1969-1970 he took over the shop. He never changed the shop’s name - probably because the old Poul Hansen still worked in the shop and Steffen didn’t have the heart to remove Poul’s name from the shop windows.
In the 1960’s the shop was more a wine and tobacco shop, but Steffen Nielsen had a hunch that there was ’something happening with pipes’. He then decided to convert the shop to what the famous pipe connoisseur and writer Paul C. Olrik called a “Temple of pipes”. And Steffen was right about the pipes. In the 1970’s and 80’s there was a significant progress in the market of selling pipes. Continued