My name is Holden Fenhoff, and I am the owner and blacksmith of Fenhoff Ironworks. I specialize in sculptural and architectural ironwork, with an emphasis on traditional techniques and careful attention to architectural context.
I have been blacksmithing since I was eight years old, due to the encouragement of my family. I am a graduate of the American College of the Building Arts in the historic ironwork program — the country’s only college dedicated to traditional building trades. I have a passion for forging metal art while leveraging historical and traditional processes.
I am equipped with the historical knowledge to reproduce and preserve historical ironwork, as well as to design and forge new contemporary commissions detailed to the buildings they live in. The shop works in two directions: faithful reproduction and preservation of historic ironwork, and new sculptural and architectural commissions detailed to the buildings they live in.
