The Brass Tacks: Beata Heuman’s Florentine Brass Handles

We just lately discovered ourselves engrossed in a three-minute movie exhibiting the inside workings of a Florentine brassware workshop. Fully unromanticized, it confirmed strip lights flickering to life and casting mild on battered work benches, welding torches being lit, and molten brass being poured into moulds. The ensuing objects—stable brass handles designed and commissioned by Swedish-born, London-based designe Beata Heuman—had been then filed and polished, each bit individually formed and shined by the “bronzista”.

“We have now been making brass handles in Florence for nearly seven years,” Beata just lately divulged to recipients of her e-newsletter. “It has been an actual deal with to go to the workshop and see them being made utilizing conventional methods and—in some cases—machines which can be over 150 years previous. My maker tells me that whereas Italy was once full of those form of outfits, it’s now a dying trade. There are few left working on this means. I hope we are able to flip that round.”

Right here we share Beata’s playful but traditional designs.