PCA Magazine Winter 2020

PREMIUMCIGARS.ORG WINTER 2020 | PCA The Magazine 51 ONE MARK OF CREATIVE GENIUS is the ability to bring forth something no one else has been able to, or that everyone said couldn’t be done. Out-of-the-box thinking may trigger the naysayers, but it also unleashes powerful forces to break new ground. Such is the case with renowned cigar humidor manufacturer Daniel Marshall. His humidors have graced the desks of luminaries such as Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sylvester Stallone, Al Pacino and the Prince of Monaco, as well as people of all means who value quality and luxury. Marshall’s company, which began with the young woodcrafter’s hopeful pitch tomake humidors for Alfred Dunhill of London, has become a worldwide leader in the manufacturing of fine quality, affordably priced cigar humidors and accessories, with the imprimatur of a No. 1 rating from Cigar Aficionado magazine. Marshall popularized the use of Brazilian rosewood and walnut burl, protected by his highly touted 1,000 coats of lacquer, in designing such high- end humidors as his Treasure Chest model, originally created for Arnold Schwarzenegger, who was at that point governor of California. His use of precious wood veneers, aged Spanish cedar interiors, gold-plated hardware, and his signature black enamel plate bearing the recognizable DM logo have come to epitomize how a top-quality cigar humidor should look and function. But Marshall’s vision was set on a greater goal. “I love challenges,” he says. “I wanted to be a California artist, an American artist, making luxury goods, in California, and selling them to the top luxury goods houses in the world. These companies weren’t buying from California; no one in Europe did that. But that was my passion andmy dream; that’s what I set out to do, and that’s what I did.” With his humidors featured in the world’s finest purveyors of high-end luxury goods, names like Bijan in Beverly Hills, Gucci in Rome, Cartier of Paris and Dunhill of London, as well as in tobacco shops throughout the U.S. and Europe, it’s no surprise that Marshall would then direct his creative energies to produce a uniquely world class cigar. The 24-Karat Golden Torpedo—an all-Nicaraguan puro—is covered in 24-karat gold leaf, about one gramof pure gold, making it the epitome of luxury, the world’s first, and arguably only, B Y L A R R Y WA G N E R D A N I E L M A R S H A L L S T R I K E S G O L D W I T H H I S 2 4 - K A R AT C I G A R T O U C H M I DAS T H E