Description
Design Berlin is, as the name suggests, a German pipe-making company – and is in fact the number two best-selling German pipe brand after Vauen. Around 12 master pipe makers use exclusively Greek briar and produce around 20000 pipes a year.
The company was started in 1948 as Pfeifenstudio Hartmann.
The first pipes were simple cheap pipes mostly used for shag (fine cut cigarette tobacco).
In 1954 Lotar Schirwitz joined the company. His love was for Danish and Italian shapes.
He improved the quality of the pipes being manufactured, and the Design Berlin brand was created.
In the early 1980s Planta Tabak-Manufaktur acquired the company.
