About the service
I forge wall-mounted wine bottle racks from solid iron rod, entirely by hand at the anvil — no laser-cut sheet, no welded-on decoration pretending to be craft. Each rack starts as straight bar stock that gets heated, drawn out, twisted and scrolled into curling brackets, then assembled into a frame that holds your bottles resting at a gentle downward angle, the way a cellar rack does, so the cork stays damp and the wine settles quietly.
You tell me how many bottles you want to display — six, twelve, twenty or more — and the wall space you have, and I design the layout around that: a single tidy row for a narrow strip above a counter, a wide fan of scrolls for a dining room feature wall, or a tall narrow column for a slim gap beside a cabinet. Every scroll is drawn out and curled individually with hand tools, so no two brackets are perfectly identical, and the whole piece has the slight unevenness that tells you a person made it rather than a machine.
Finish is your choice: raw forged steel sealed with beeswax for a warm, low-sheen look; traditional black satin for a classic kitchen or dining room; or a bronzed patina that catches candlelight nicely in a more formal room. All racks are fitted with a mounting plate drilled for standard wall anchors, and I include the hardware needed for solid wall, stud wall or masonry mounting depending on what you tell me about your wall.
Because the whole piece is forge-welded and riveted rather than glued or tacked, it holds real weight — a full rack of twelve heavy bottles is no problem for the frame or the fixings. I send progress photos at the rough-forging stage and again before the finish coat, so you can ask for adjustments to bottle spacing or scroll shape before anything is sealed. Turnaround for a standard twelve-bottle rack is about a week and a half from confirmed design to finished piece, ready to hang, with a written care note for the finish included.
You tell me how many bottles you want to display — six, twelve, twenty or more — and the wall space you have, and I design the layout around that: a single tidy row for a narrow strip above a counter, a wide fan of scrolls for a dining room feature wall, or a tall narrow column for a slim gap beside a cabinet. Every scroll is drawn out and curled individually with hand tools, so no two brackets are perfectly identical, and the whole piece has the slight unevenness that tells you a person made it rather than a machine.
Finish is your choice: raw forged steel sealed with beeswax for a warm, low-sheen look; traditional black satin for a classic kitchen or dining room; or a bronzed patina that catches candlelight nicely in a more formal room. All racks are fitted with a mounting plate drilled for standard wall anchors, and I include the hardware needed for solid wall, stud wall or masonry mounting depending on what you tell me about your wall.
Because the whole piece is forge-welded and riveted rather than glued or tacked, it holds real weight — a full rack of twelve heavy bottles is no problem for the frame or the fixings. I send progress photos at the rough-forging stage and again before the finish coat, so you can ask for adjustments to bottle spacing or scroll shape before anything is sealed. Turnaround for a standard twelve-bottle rack is about a week and a half from confirmed design to finished piece, ready to hang, with a written care note for the finish included.
