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Z. Meilach shows how focusing on the iron details of flowers, leaves,
and amazing critters makes ordinary fences, gates, and chandeliers
extraordinary. Functional joints become beautiful elements for furniture,
fireplace accessories, candlestick holders, and other iron items
we use daily.
Over
250 photographs display details of contemporary iron objects, including
flowers, grape clusters, leaves, small and large animals that attest
to the blacksmith's role as a sculptor. There are amazing scrolls,
folds, twists, textures, and weaves not normally associated with
the hard metal. But with heat, hammer, talent, and muscle the modern
artist-blacksmith is forging exciting forms that permeate our surroundings.
