We have been here for over 20 years creating custom forge work for our clients:
iron-to-live-with
2873A Industrial Road
Santa Fe, New Mexico 87507 USA
(505) 474-3060
Mark your calendar, summer workshops are coming up soon! July 22 to August 11, 2012 in Santa Fe. Get into blacksmithing, capoeira, African drumming and lots of fun and community.
Exciting!
Last winter, Helmut had a chance to do some studies of work by legendary German blacksmith Fritz Kuhn for a customer. The resulting pieces and story were featured in the spring issue of the Anvil's Ring, national publication of ABANA. You can read it by clicking on the picture.
This is an excerpt from a documentary by Tom Meffert and Dagmar Diebels about iron-to-live-with (2008).
"My architectural ironwork for private customers includes large gates and railings and is typically forged free hand, either directly on the anvil or under an air hammer or hydraulic press. I have also done public sculptures in the US and abroad. My goal is simple: create happy work, both for me and my customers."
Helmut Hillenkamp
In 2007 Helmut Hillenkamp received the Alex Bealer Award, the highest recognition by ABANA (Artists Blacksmiths Association of North America) for his merits on behalf of the craft of blacksmithing.
