Art smithery in Mainz: designed metal objects, staircases, gates and balustrades for indoor and outdoor use
Gradinger Design – Werkstatt für Metallgestaltung, Kunstschmiede
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Workshop for Metal Design
Gradinger Design is a workshop for metal design and artistic blacksmithing in Mainz. The family business was founded in 1886 and is now run in its fourth generation by owner Michael Gradinger. The workshop produces designed metal objects for indoor and outdoor use, including straight or curved staircases, gates, balustrades, plant supports as well as vases, bowls and sacral works. Production is carried out by hand in forging as well as in artistic and structural metalworking; the materials used are steel and stainless steel. The range of services covers everything from design to on-site assembly, such as the installation of the new cathedral spire and the Domsgickel at Mainz Cathedral in 2013. Customers include firms from architecture, heritage conservation and sacral building.
- Site
- Mainz
- Processes
- Artistic and structural metalworking, Metal design, Forging, Assembly, Art smithery, Staircases, Gates, Balustrades
- Materials
- Steel, Stainless steel, Metal
- Founded
- 1886
- Industries
- Craftsmanship/artisanship, Heritage conservation, Architecture/Construction, Churches/Sacral building
- 01
Design/Draft
- 02
Forging
- 03
Artistic and structural metalworking
- 04
Assembly
Materials and Processes
Steel
Base material for forged gates, staircases and balustrades for outdoor and indoor use.
Stainless steel
Used among other things for sacral works such as the stainless steel cross of the Heiliggeistkirche Seeheim.
Location
Mainz
DEWorkshop for metal design / art smithery
- Materials
- Steel, stainless steel
Components and Products
Inside the production
Industries
Processes & technical limits
| Processes | Tolerance | Max. part | Weight | Lot size | Materials |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Artistic and structural metalworkingJoining | – | – | – | – | Steel, Stainless steel, Metal |
| Metal designForming | – | – | – | – | Steel, Stainless steel, Metal |
| ForgingForming | – | – | – | – | Steel, Metal |
| AssemblyAssembly | – | – | – | – | Steel, Metal |
Additional services
History
- 1886
Foundation of the forge business
- 1965
Hermann Gradinger runs the workshop in Mainz-Gonsenheim in the third generation; from 1965 exhibitions in Germany and abroad, including in Paris, London and New York
- 2010
Prize of German Craftsmanship (Preis des Handwerks)
- 2013
Installation of the new cathedral spire and the Domsgickel at Mainz Cathedral
- 2016
130 years of the Gradinger forge business