Davidoff Collaborates with Pop Art Artist Boyarde Messenger on Ultra-Limited Masterpiece Humidors

Davidoff Cigars is delighted to announce its collaboration with British pop art artist Boyarde Messenger. The global brand for premium cigars and accessories launches an ultra-limited Masterpiece humidor collection of its Dome humidor, with each of the five available pieces displaying an exceptional artwork by Boyarde. Furthermore, all humidors come with specially crafted cigars, which are unique to each piece.

Carrying on the brand’s approach of collaborations with artists who apply their craft to Davidoff’s sophisticated humidors, the Davidoff & Boyarde Masterpiece Humidor Collection is a novelty for both brands: each sought inspiration in the other’s art form, which they incorporated in their own craft. The result is a symbiosis of the most exclusive kind, in which the creative work and craftsmanship from both sides merged into one very distinguished story reserved for those who obtain one of the five humidors with their specially created cigars.

“Boyarde’s unconventional pop art paintings on our humidors vary widely from the style we pursued with collaborations with other artists in the past”, says Edward Simon, CMO at Oettinger Davidoff. “It was a joy to see how Boyarde’s art and our cigars came together in each of these five humidors. Our craftsmanship and our blends underpinned and elevated Boyarde’s paintings and vice versa. In a day and age where luxury is more widely accessible, these five individual pieces are the ultimate expression of uniqueness and will be highly sought-after by those appreciating this level of exclusivity.”

Davidoff Dome humidor

The Dome humidor is the embodiment of Davidoff’s unparalleled quality standards and innovative spirit. At the time of the first Dome’s launch in 2008, no one else was able to craft this special accessory. It reflects the brand’s verve, style and attention to detail, as the sculptured dome requires hours of finest craftsmanship, which achieves a standard of quality that could never be fabricated by a machine. This technical perfection of the humidor’s curvature is a grand artistic innovation worthy of the most exclusive cigars. To ensure their ideal humification and the preservation of their individual flavour, only the finest woods are used for this humidor.

Boyarde Art House

Boyarde Messenger, the founder of Boyarde Art House, has been hand-painting on unusual canvases for over 15 years. The objects into which Boyarde breathes new life with her paintings range from luxury bags to shoes and clothes. Today, Boyarde Art House has solidified its reputation as one of the leading brands for one-of-a-kind art worldwide. At the centre of Boyarde’s work stands quality, creativity and craftsmanship. The process of hand-painting the five Dome humidors for Davidoff was elaborate: Boyarde invested 5 months in the painting of each humidor, which required the appliance of up to 40 layers of paint and the usage of 40 different brushes with nibs as small as one third of a millimetre.

Classically Noir

Inspired by the Golden Age of Hollywood, this humidor reflects the protagonists’ familiar struggles between life and love. The vintage style “poster” design displays the storytelling around the power play, while the cigars created for the humidor underpin this mature character: The well-aged toro cigars were blended and rolled seven years ago and treat aficionados to a taste experience with notes of roasted nuts, citrus and pepper.

Elementary

This humidor exudes elegance and refinement by the sheer clean lines and simplicity of the design, playing on nature’s elements in the most graphic form. The toro cigars presented in the humidor, which aged for seven years, convey that same instant pleasure and allow the aficionado to indulge in notes of spice, leather and black coffee.

Geometrically Speaking

While the geometrics on this humidor create a confident, clean backdrop, they also offer a pleasant dichotomy against the floating objects symbolising the elegance, refinement and relaxation associated with the classic gentleman. The exclusive toro cigars, which were aged for ten whole years, emphasise these characteristics with their complex and robust flavours of spice, leather and oak wood.

Instinctively

Inspired by Boyarde’s time in Belize and the never-ending twists and turns in the heart of the jungle, this humidor displays the artist’s signature-painted leopard in all its stealth and grace. The humidor’s cigars reflect the dynamic design in their taste experience: continuously changing flavours of liquorice, cream and cacao entertain the palate. Having aged for ten years, the exclusive toros match the fine artwork on the humidor perfectly.

The Direct Gaze

This humidor juxtaposes the traditional notion of masculine and feminine: masculine lines of geometrics and bold shapes, which are combined with a female subject holding a direct gaze at the spectator. The cigars created for the humidor, blended and rolled nine years ago and aged ever since, offer a unique taste experience exclusive to those in possession of this humidor: The perfectos create floral notes and aromas of dark chocolate and cedar wood.

Launch & availability
The five Davidoff & Boyarde Masterpiece humidors will be available from 7 September 2023 as follows (one humidor per store):
Classically Noir | Monaco
Elementary | Istanbul
Geometrically Speaking | Brussels
Instinctively | Hong Kong
The Direct Gaze | New York City

About the history of Davidoff Humidors
Just like fine wine, premium cigars need to be stored in the right environment in order to emerge matured and improved. It was Zino Davidoff who first invested time in researching and developing optimum ways for storing the finest quality cigars. The time spent in the humidor during the ageing process requires absolute control of humidity and temperature. Taking such factors into consideration, he built his first, famous cigar cellar in 1930. However, not all connoisseurs have a cigar cellar at their disposal; thus, he pioneered the first humidor so that cigar lovers could store their prized possessions on a smaller scale. Innovation in the craftsmanship and the science of humidors has gone hand-in-hand in Davidoff’s array of possibilities for humidor design. The Davidoff regulator, for instance, broke new ground with the first, proprietary self-regulating system, dispensing with the need for a controlling hygrometer to care for a beautiful cigar, ready to be enjoyed at any time.