Clément Ferrari, ironwork and art furniture

Is it in the scrolls created for his beautiful stone residence that Clément Ferrari, ironworker and furniture designer finds his inspiration? He transforms metal into a work of art with creativity, skill and the passion of a companion of duty.

Here is the workshop: a bender, a folding machine, a metal lathe from the 60s. Clément also uses a grinder, a welding station, small tools but does not use large specific machines, because these would be investments that would require selling a lot more creations to be able to pay them back.
Clément obtained his ironworker's CAP with the Compagnons du Devoir. It is a passion for him but with the renovation he has developed several strings to his bow since he bought his house in 2015 with his wife Elisabeth: stone work, electricity, plumbing, concrete…. Above the workshop one can notice a magnificent rose window in reconstituted scrap stone (2/3 dark gray cement, white and ocher cement)
She has changed the building, her neighbors would say. In particular the workshop, with its smooth concrete floor and marble dust, was before the barn.
Ironwork and furniture in art: if Clément responds to orders, his niche is that of creation. And to his technical talents, his dexterity, we must recognize his great creativity.
He finally uses the forge very little. However, this is particularly required to deform a part or make 90 degree angles. Clément does not work with a torch. He presents us with a lamp, one of his first creations. He is particularly fond of the swirls found on his greenhouse, his balcony barriers and terraces… Then the public's gaze is drawn to a seat whose black background is made of wood, the curvatures are brushed stainless steel painted with powder coated paint.
Silver leaves laid assembled with a hardened epoxy resin, which for the work in progress remains to be sanded. The seat is made of foldable flexible steel without heating in the forge and without a bender. The bender bends but does not twist the steel.
Stainless steel has more of a spring effect and returns more than steel to its initial curve, it is harder to work with: see one of Clément's works, a relax chair in stainless steel on his site.
Clément's objective is to create a set of art furniture, seat, table, lighting to exhibit in the gallery.
He can twist cold with the claw. Hitting with the mass requires precision and control of different power and according to repeated blows with a lower amplitude. Clément strikes with a lighter hammer to handle.
When Clément creates, he starts from an idea but necessarily puts it on paper. For a work of organic form, apart from a sketch, he goes directly to creation. From drawing to production, the curvature could indeed turn out to be different. He realizes his folds "by eye".
We could provide the template according to the shape provided you have at least ten identical parts.
Otherwise for works with straighter lines he makes 3 D drawings.
The price of the work is more the labor than the cost of the material, the creations of the furniture type are rather light, the impact of the crisis with the increase in the cost of raw materials is felt less.
Ironwork is an assembly of several elements. During the forge demonstration Clément lights the forge fire.
Solder brazier
A barred window above the workshop seems to have been a witness of the house for several decades. The vertical and horizontal bars draw continuous lines. Clément explains the process of a bulge hole for the passage of the hot bar
Clément refines, thins, tapers, cold in a vice with a succession of small folds that form a volute.
Resolutely it is by forging that one becomes a blacksmith...