Dunhill

Alfred Dunhill Ltd. is currently owned by Richemont (who also own Asprey) and is a British luxury goods brand. They specialise in bespoke and ready-to-wear mens-ware, leather goods and accessories. The company is still based in London where it operates a leather workshop.

Alfred Dunhill inherited his father’s saddlery business on London’s Euston Road in 1893 at the age of 21 and went on to develop it into a motoring accessories and attire provider to take advantage of the growing demand for automobiles.

He went on to build it into a luxury brand helped by opening a tobacconist and pipe shop on Duke Street in 1907 which was in the vicinity of most of the gentlemen’s’’ clubs of the time. He built a loyal and distinguished following around his ‘Windshield Pipe’, which enabled smoking in the mainly opened top cars of the day.

After the First World War, the business expanded internationally opening offices in New York and Paris.

The business continued to be family run and by the late 1970s had expanded into a full range of menswear. In the 1990s the Alfred Dunhill store in Jermyn Street in London was renovated to evoke the atmosphere of a private gentlemans club, seeking to give the experience of luxury as well as providing luxury products.

The business was developed by Alfred Dunhill after he inherited his father’s saddlery business on London’s Euston Road at the age of 21 in 1893. Alfred Dunhill, responding to the growing demand for automobiles at this time, developed a line of accessories called “Dunhill’s Motorities”. This first collection included car horns and lamps, leather overcoats, goggles, picnic sets and timepieces, which provided the company with an strap-line of “Everything But The Motor”.