More custom coat racks

Time for another round-up of some of our recent favorite custom mosaic coat racks! If you'd like to see more examples, check out other blog posts here, here, and here.

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This client approached us about using doorknobs in place of our usual hand-forged hooks. She provided the doorknobs, as well as fabric, paint, and wallpaper samples from the two rooms where her coat racks would hang. We made the frames a bit wider to accommodate the knobs. The wider profile really shows off the gorgeous reclaimed walnut!

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A six-hook custom coat rack in blue and green in progress.

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Sometimes clients just have a particular color in mind, but usually they have some other ideas as well. For the coat rack on the left, the client requested a plus symbol, handmade by Kyle, to be incorporated into the mosaic. For the piece on the right, that client wanted a re-creation of an earlier, smaller coat rack in a larger size.

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The special request for this six-hook mosaic coat rack was to give the piece a masculine feel for a single man.

To order your own custom mosaic coat rack, stop by our shop or send us an email!

Local Love: Join or Die Knives

Time for another collaboration! We recently worked with our friends at Join or Die Knives to creat a very cool, one-of-a-kind knife. Kyle forged the steel knife blank, Brent Stubblefield finished the knife and created a gorgeous hilt, and Blue Stubblefield crafted a beautiful leather sheath personalized with the Phoenix Handcraft logo.

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There's Kyle on the left and Brent on the right, forging knife blanks in our metal studio.

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Kyle's knife on the left and Brent's on the right, plus a peek into the Join or Die process. Photos by Join or Die Knives.

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Brent finishing the knife in the Join or Die workshop. Photo by Nick Davis Photography.

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Finished product! Knife photos by Nick Davis Photography.

Fall projects

This fall has flown by in a whirl! In addition to our work making and selling metal and mosaic goods, we've been working on bringing RVA Makers, a grassroots networking group we founded three years ago, to the next level. Over the summer we created a board and now we're raising funds to cover the costs of becoming an official non-profit. Whew! Take a peek at the campaign over on Indiegogo.

Meanwhile, here's what we've been up to in the metal, mosaic, and wood department!

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This is the third annual trophy we've created for the ie* Innovation Award. We like to change it up a little each year and try something new.

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Custom six-hook mosaic coat rack in blue and green. Unfortunately we didn't remember to get a photo of this one during daylight hours, so the colors are a little off in this picture.

Here's some of our work in the Umanoff Design booth at a super fun high end home décor shop. The mixture of furniture and art at this place is so fun to explore!

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Candle cups and the small gradient mosaics are a few of our treasures we dropped off at Art 180 for their second annual Atlas Holiday Market, opening Friday December 4.

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