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Tenant Profile: Art & Anvil Ironworks

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by redhookwaterfr
October 14, 2013
Category:   Tenants

Take a look at the iron work of Oleg Shyshkin.

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Toronto’s Wrought Iron Art LTD. maintains a workshop at the O’Connell Organization’s German American Stores in Red Hook, Brooklyn.

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In 1996, Oleg Shyshkin, an architect by profession, opened a creative studio in Toronto, Canada, for the design and artistic forging of wrought iron.

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“Iron is iron, but it belongs to us,” says Shyshkin. “We model from it, like from wax; because we love it. And iron can feel it.”

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The German American stores, with the massive footprints it allows industrial tenants, allows the blacksmiths to practice their art.

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Here’s a fencing unit which is still under construction.