The Forge Collection

The industrial vocabulary, cast in solid brass and lathed to micron precision.

By the mid-twentieth century, Birmingham's brass works had married the city's casting tradition to a new precision: the lathe. Concentric forms turned to a micron's tolerance. Reeded surfaces cut in perfect repeat. The romance of the foundry, made exact.

The Forge Collection takes its vocabulary from that period. A reeded beehive knob on a stepped concentric backplate. A reeded cup pull. A tapered bar drop handle on stepped plinths. Crisp geometry, machine-finished where Guild is hand-finished — the opposite manufacturing posture from the Birmingham Guild of Handicraft. Where Guild celebrates the hand, Forge celebrates the machine.

Three pieces — knob, cup pull, drop handle — sand-cast in solid Birmingham brass and then lathed to a micron's tolerance. Three finishes: Polished Unlacquered, Aged, and Satin Brass. Every piece carries a maker's mark — for Forge, a small crossed hammer and tongs in place of the Guild rose. The smith's mark, not the silversmith's.

The Forge Collection is the third of three Winfield & Turner vocabularies. Founders opens the trilogy in the Georgian tradition of 1740. Guild sits between in the Arts & Crafts tradition of 1890.

Held in stock at the workshop. Posted from Birmingham.