This forged steel garden gate and balcony railings were handcrafted for a mansion in Menorca, Balearic Islands. The gate and railings are handcrafted from a special steel to withstand the marine environment and are inspired by the plant world of the islands. The gate and railing are designed from the notion of a single continuously flowing line.
Length 10 cm
Width 200 cm
Height 150 cm
©Telmo Cao Farré
©Telmo Cao Farré
©Telmo Cao Farré
©Telmo Cao Farré
Telmo Cao Farré
- Cao. Forxa artística e escultura
- Blacksmith
- Sargadelos, Spain
- Master Artisan
Contact
Spanish, Catalan, English, Galician
Hours:
Monday to Friday 09:00 -14:00/15:30 -18:30
Monday to Friday 09:00 -14:00/15:30 -18:30
Phone:
+34 638717272
+34 638717272
©Telmo Cao Farré
An iron perseverance
- • Telmo’s work is done in wrought iron
- • His restorations use the same techniques as the originals
- • He opened his first workshop in 2010
Telmo Cao Farré grew up in the workshops of his father, a ceramics and sculpture teacher. He felt a predilection for metal since he was a child. At the age of 18, he turned to the world of forging, his first commission being the realisation of all the grilles for a large building in A Coruña, Galicia. Telmo's specialty is hot forging – with it all the associated techniques that are involved to fully develop the craft, using punching, riveting or flame welding. His main source of inspiration is nature, the organic forms of plants or water. He simplifies its lines into living elements with movement. His current workshop is the building that in 1790 was the largest forging and foundry industry in the country, and from there he now tries to preserve the tradition of its people.
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Photo: ©Telmo Cao Farré
Formet Nou
Photo: ©Telmo Cao Farré
Mar
This hand-forged latticework with organic and fluid forms was designed to cover a stairwell. The forged iron lines of the work act as handrails.
Length 15 cm
Width 220 cm
Height 250 cm
Photo: ©Telmo Cao Farré
Casa Xica
This neo-modernist entrance gate for a private house, with organic and vegetal design, is hand forged from wrought iron. The gate has designed for a house on the outskirts of Barcelona, Catalonia.
Length 15 cm
Width 400 cm
Height 170 cm
Photo: ©Telmo Cao Farré
Casa Xica Garden
This small garden gate is made with a single piece of wrought iron. The material comes to life like a vine and creates the work. The gate was designed for a property on the outskirts of Barcelona, Catalonia.
Length 15 cm
Width 100 cm
Height 120 cm
Photo: ©Telmo Cao Farré
Correas da Romá
The design of this staircase, hand forged from iron and finished with jatoba wood, is inspired by the marine world, specifically Himanthalia elongata, an algae at risk of extinction on the coast of Lugo, Galicia. The house where it is placed is located on the coast where these algae still exist. These stairs represent the seabed rocked by the sea.
Length 160 cm
Width 210 cm
Height 600 cm
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