"The cigar is an art of suggestion and divination, but also an art of living, timeless and spiritual."
BRAND'S THEMATIC
This name is as a nod to the character headed, renowned the 19th century, of an engineer renowned from London, well ahead of his time, a pioneer of modern engineering that will be called the 'golden age of the industrial revolution.
"Isambard Kingdom Brunel" contributed notably to the construction of the Thames Tunnel (London); the first tunnel under a river, and many other successes like the design of the first maritime vessel with steel hull powered by a propeller for example. "Isambard Kingdom Brunel" his true spelling was a real workaholic and slept in fact only four hours a night to meet all these new challenges. Another of his qualities or defects was : that he smoked cigars and not a little, but nothing surprising in the smoky fashion from the Victorian era. According to witnesses, the daily consumption reached, it seems, 40 cigars !! Unfortunately, his death was pronounced too soon, Thursday September 15, 1859, died at the age of 53 from kidney complications followed by an attack.
So I took that name as a legacy of one of the excessive love of cigars, IZAMBAR.
Brunel was known to smoke up to 40 cigars a day !
Isambard Kingdom Brunel ; 9 April 1806 – 15 September 1859), was an English mechanical and civil engineer who is considered "one of the most ingenious and prolific figures in engineering history, one of the 19th century engineering giants, and "one of the greatest figures of the Industrial Revolution, who changed the face of the English landscape with his groundbreaking designs and ingenious constructions". Brunel built dockyards, the Great Western Railway, a series of steamships including the first propeller-driven transatlantic steamship, and numerous important bridges and tunnels. His designs revolutionised public transport and modern engineering.
Though Brunel's projects were not always successful, they often contained innovative solutions to long-standing engineering problems. During his career, Brunel achieved many engineering firsts, including assisting in the building of the first tunnel under a navigable river and development of SS Great Britain, the first propeller-driven, ocean-going, iron ship, which, when built in 1843, was the largest ship ever built.
Brunel set the standard for a well-built railway, using careful surveys to minimise gradients and curves. This necessitated expensive construction techniques, new bridges, new viaducts, and the two-mile-long Box Tunnel. One controversial feature was the wide gauge, a "broad gauge" of 7 ft 1⁄4 in (2,140 mm), instead of what was later to be known as "standard gauge" of 4 ft 8 1⁄2 in (1,435 mm).
Brunel astonished Britain by proposing to extend the Great Western Railway westward to North America by building steam-powered, iron-hulled ships. He designed and built three ships that revolutionised naval engineering: the SS Great Western (1838), the SS Great Britain (1843), and the SS Great Eastern (1859).
In 2002, Brunel was placed second in a BBC public poll to determine the "100 Greatest Britons". In 2006, the bicentenary of his birth, a major programme of events celebrated his life and work under the name Brunel 200.