Catching Up With Pipemaker Alex Florov

 

(Smokingpipes.com) Alex Florov has spoken to us before about influences and other master-pipemakers whose work he admires, but there's another pipemaker relevant to discussions of Alex Florov pipes. Specifically, an artisan who is relevant because the two share some history as artisans. Both came into pipemaking from a background as professional model-makers, both have expressed a love for the floral, and in particular for the beauty of the Art Nouveau movement, and both went on to express this more often than not in very complex pipe shapes. Yet each went on to produce very different work as a whole — a very different design language. Continued