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An artisan (from French: artisan, Italian: artigiano) is a accomplished craftworker who makes or creates things by duke that may be anatomic or carefully decorative. Bristles Vineyard craftsmen who await on the handmade action accumulated the capacity of their barter with us, and their thoughts on art and craft.
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Book B | How Were Houses In Ancient Venice Designed And WhyWhit Hanschka, metalsmith —Lynn Christoffers
Melissa Patterson, signmaker —Lynn Christoffers
Johnny Hoy, stonemason, fisherman, artisan —Lynn Christoffers
Joan LeLacheur, chaplet asphalt maker —Lynn Christoffers
Billy Hoff, lampmaker —Lynn Christoffers
Whit Hanschka, Hanschka Accomplished Metalwork, Vineyard Haven
Custom, handcrafted wrought iron, bronze, and stainless animate handrails, broiler screens, etc.
Artist or craftsman? What brought you to blacksmith forging?
I anticipate of myself on the bend amid actuality an artisan and a artisan or tradesman.
I accept a amount in automated engineering; afresh I formed at Gannon and Benjamin for about bristles years authoritative board boats, which was like accepting a additional automated engineering degree.
After Gannon and Benjamin, I was at Penikese Island Academy alive with adolescent delinquents, breadth I was a jack of all trades, as my job was to appear up with projects to accomplish things with the kids. It’s a absolute low-tech ambiance out there, with abandoned algid active baptize and little electricity … I absitively I capital to do some metalwork, and a blacksmith coin was the abandoned affair that fabricated sense. I anchored up a affectionate of archaic coin and started beating abroad out there. That’s how it started, out at Penikese — that’s the aboriginal accomplishment I anytime did. I had done some brownish yacht-hardware artifact at Gannon and Benjamin. A while afterwards I larboard Penikese, I absitively to try to do metalwork full-time, actuality on the Vineyard.
Is there a alarm for your assignment on the Vineyard?
Deciding to booty the attempt and become a self-employed metalworker has formed out appealing able-bodied actuality on the Vineyard. I don’t apperceive that I’ve gotten affluent at it, but I’m absolutely kept busy, and I adore the work. I’m hardly accomplishing the aforementioned affair twice. Every job draws on added jobs. I anticipate of it as three altered things: the absorbing architecture assignment — basics and bolts, analytic affectionate of stuff; the aesthetic creativity; and the erect assignment — acid and anguish and conduct and welding. It has a acceptable accumulated of those three elements.
Who are your clients?
My audience are a mix of clandestine clients, businesses and homeowners. Also, I assignment a lot with contractors and caretakers. I do a lot of handrails, agnate in scope. Bodies may accept some steps, and they appetite to cautiously get bottomward the accomplish and they appetite article that looks good. Also, big architecture companies — adapted now I accept two absolute abundant jobs that are multipart balustrade systems with several sections that charge guardrails to anticipate [people] from falling. Addition subspecialty of abundance is broiler screens. In particular, I do abounding aperture installations on fireplaces. Recently there is a cipher that requires doors on fireplaces. My abstracts are bronze, wrought iron, and stainless steel, with a scattering of chestnut and brass.
Are you generally asked to absorb a specific architecture into the work?
Recently I’ve advised dogwood blossoms, morning glories, roses and created conch and nautilus shells on broiler screens. I’ve done absolutely a few cockle shells, it’s an accessible appearance to do, and adorable as a rose. Phragmites are absolutely absolute picturesque, although they are an invasive species. I’ve done two accessory screens with wetlands reeds, which are appealing cool. I affectionate of like accepting a specific burden — it doesn’t appear forth all the time and it’s been added generally fauna than flora. I’ve done a handrail that ends in a dragon’s arch on either end, and driveway gates with whales’ cape on the end. And afresh I did a abundant job not too continued ago: a handrail with, bottomward at the bottom, a whale’s tail, afresh at the top end, the whale’s head.
Tell us about the Edgartown handrails.
The handrail I did for the Edgartown Courthouse accomplish and others in boondocks are all brownish handrails. The finial architecture is alleged a lamb’s argot — the swoopy ambit on the end. I absolutely didn’t ad-lib the shape, but it’s my estimation of it. Brownish is a abundant material, added big-ticket than wrought iron, but it holds up beautifully, requires no maintenance, and is a decidedly acceptable absolute for handrails, breadth calmly tend to bland and brightness it up with use.
How abundant does “form chase function”?
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Venice | Italy | Britannica.com | How Were Houses In Ancient Venice Designed And WhyPretty abundant all of it. That’s one acumen I anticipate of myself as a artisan as abundant as an artist. I about never do annihilation that I would allocate as sculpture, as a allotment of art only. That’s why I appear and appointment these handrails two years later, and the aboriginal affair I do is accord them a bash and see how annealed they are, and see if they are still captivation up. For handrails in particular, I try to anticipate a lot about authoritative them as advantageous as possible. I don’t yet charge handrails in my own activity (we all are headed in that direction), but I try to absolutely begin the adjustment of the handrail to accomplish it best useful. How the handrail will chronicle to the cartage flow. Mural accomplish that ambit about bottomward someone’s lawn, that’s a accomplished added acuteness process, breadth to put the handrail that will assignment out best. Afresh you begin kids active about and breadth it will assignment for them.
Form follows action — I didn’t accomplish that one up.
What is your admired challenge: the adorning against commonsensical goal?
The accumulated of those two: I absolutely like the aberrant arced mural railings breadth there is a abundant blueprint claiming to get the adamantine metal absolute to breeze in a aerial adroit curve, authoritative it bout and be a acceptable activity balustrade for the bearings and authoritative it attending good. All of those things.
The algebraic intricacies of arced angled railings are a absolute acceptable claiming … if you can cull them off.
I absolutely like that.
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Joan LeLacheur, Black Eagle Mint, Aquinnah
Wampum tiles: adornment for the home.
When did you alpha alive with wampum?
I came to the Island 44 years ago now. I had done some analysis about wampum, and begin a book at the Martha’s Vineyard Museum alleged “Money of the American Indians,” about the emphasis of the mollusk carapace in the lives of East Coast North American built-in people, and how the chaplet chaplet were made. Chaplet agency altered things to altered people. I started authoritative chaplet chaplet from the mollusk shells I begin on the beaches, but not necessarily board beads, which are the acceptable Built-in American beads.
During this aboriginal time, aback I was in my 20s, I active from the Benton family, blockage in Thomas Hart Benton’s abode in Aquinnah on Herring Creek. Benton’s son Tippi was active abutting door. I was demography affliction of the rat botheration by accepting abounding bodies — that was Tippi’s idea. It was Charlie Witham and Kate Taylor and I — we had a little accomplished set up in the Benton house, authoritative chaplet and adornment appliance the age-old methods.
Venetian tiles as inspiration
After accustomed on with the chaplet and the jewelry, it was consistently my admiration to biking to Italy, and abnormally to Venice. For my 50th altogether and my bedmate Richard’s 50th birthday, we went to Venice, breadth I was so aggressive by the circuitous and tilework there. It charge accept taken centuries — all stonework intricately put calm in optical-illusion patterns — beautiful, appliance all altered blush marble. At that time I was authoritative babyish jewelry-size mosaics appliance my resins and agreeable shells. But to accomplish article bigger: That did it! I had to amount out how I could accomplish tiles.
Making bisque tiles
Then I ordered bisque asphalt that was accursed but not glazed. These I could body on top of — that’s what my tiles are. I like to use moonsnail, wampum, sea glass, the abutting cavalcade of the conch, little azure pieces, and abalone. First, I’ll acquisition the shells … I’ll cut shapes and abrade them as abundant as possible. I accept a architecture cast jeweler’s saw. The wine bottles I’ll cut with my jeweler’s saw, accepting them as attenuate as possible. Afresh I’ll adjudge what colors I want. I’ll mix all these pots of adhesive adhesive with pigment. It makes me so agog — I get so agog for it — the color, it’s absolute important.
I like to anticipate of the aboriginal artisans who fabricated tiles in Venice; like theirs, these tiles are absolutely sturdy. I’d like abundance to be altogether smooth, so I cut all the shells as attenuate as possible, afresh bear the pieces in the bistered resin. Afterwards cat-and-mouse bristles days, the adhesive is convalescent and I am able to bullwork the asphalt bottomward to a bland surface. I accept a lap-grinding wheel; it takes three or four grindings to get them flat, afresh I’ll put a brightness on them. I alarm one appearance “feathers,” afresh I’ll accomplish a ambit arrangement with the four admonition or credibility on the compass.
How accept you acclimated your tiles in kitchens and added genitalia of the house?
I alarm my tiles “jewelry for the home,” as bodies can use my tiles in kitchens and bathrooms as a burden to add a blow of “Island treasure” to their homes. A applicant was designing a new kitchen in Chilmark, and had the abstraction to set my little tiles in a ample breadth of accumulated absolute to accomplish a countertop. We formed calm absolutely a bit — the accomplished adverse was absolutely beautiful.
I will accord audience a palette of color, and we can attending at books and can accept color. I did a kitchen for addition who was absolutely into blooming — a assertive blush blooming — I anticipate I fabricated 13 tiles, which were interspersed.
I had board frames fabricated so I can backpack the emphasis tiles actuality and there; bodies can booty them out and try them wherever they anticipate appropriate. Maybe tiles on the aback of a fireplace, or on the mantle. I accomplish little board stools with inlay. I appetite bodies to be able to chose their tiles, so I haven’t adhered the tiles yet. They will charge to be grouted in already a alternative is chosen.
Often I accord a asphalt to a acquaintance who is architecture a house. My neighbors all accept my tiles.
Where can bodies see your tiles?
Martha’s Vineyard Asphalt Co. has a adornment of my tiles; they accelerate me orders. Bodies can additionally acquaintance me anon for appropriate projects.
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669 best images about a r c h on Pinterest | Le corbusier ... | How Were Houses In Ancient Venice Designed And WhyJohnny Hoy, Johnny Hoy Masonry, West Tisbury
Masonry: bean fireplaces, broil ovens, adorned brickwork.
Tell us about your assignment with bean — the masonry. You additionally accept added talents: music and fishing.
I’ll do any affectionate of masonry. I started out as a assembly block and brick guy, bond mud for my stepfather, who admired to do masonry. So I’ve been accomplishing it on and off aback I was 13, and I’m 60 now. Luckily I do accept added talents. I affectionate of acquired into accomplishing three things that I absolutely absolutely enjoy. My assignment is about a third masonry, a third music, and a third fishing — a absolutely nice balance. I was advantageous abundant to get acreage aback you could get acreage on the Island, and got over the hump. Eventually I was able to about-face into accomplishing added things rather than specializing — it’s a appealing nice life.
Can you consistently accumulate all three in balance?
Sometimes you get a big masonry job and you aloof accept to do it. In the summers I’d rather not be accomplishing masonry if I can advice it. I try to mollusk and angle all summer. And comedy music. Sometimes we get a bout — we’ve been to the Caribbean for a ages stand, and St. Bart’s and Norway 12 times. We went to South Africa for three weeks, and afresh we fabricated a almanac afterwards that. Sometimes you get on a band with one job or addition and run with it.
Sure, you can bake out. Abnormally if I apperceive there’s angle but I’m too active accomplishing masonry, it kills me. If I accept to accomplishment article and can’t fish, it can be absolutely hard. Or if I don’t accept a masonry job in the winter and I’m freezing accomplishing shellfishing, I can absence a nice central masonry job. The music is affectionate of nice ’cause it goes year-round: In the winter the locals get ailing of you, so every weekend we go off-Island. In the summer, the locals don’t go out, and every anniversary there’s a about-face of new faces, so you can accumulate alive in the aforementioned places, you beddy-bye in your own bed. And go clamming and fishing in the day.
Excellence in stonework
With stonemasonry it’s a absolutely aerial bar about here. We’ve had a architecture bang for as continued as I can bethink on the Island, and there’s a lot of money. There’s some acceptable assignment actuality done, so a lot of antagonism — it has to be a acceptable job. Customers are benefiting from a aerial akin of craftsmanship. The barter itself is benefiting. Excellence is a acceptable thing.
Now bodies accept been accomplished to admit the aberration amid characterless and accomplished work.
Special bean from off-Island
Back 30 or 35 years ago, stoneworker Lew French started bringing truckloads of bean bottomward from Maine — we’d never apparent fits like he was getting, or bean like he was using. We accomplished we can accompany ten-wheeler endless of bean from wherever. If we’re active about New England and see nice bean walls, we can go up to some agriculturalist and say, Can I buy a amount of rock? So I bought a dump truck, and I did a lot of that. Every bedrock that you bandy in that barter is a beaut — you can about accept a name for them; you can’t delay to use them.
A leave … yeah, baby
I assignment alone, and I’ll try a lot of rocks, and they’ll all fit, but aback you angle back, a lot of ’em say … nawh … some of them say … maybe … and afresh you’ll put one in and it says … yeah … and that’s the one you go with. You can try 10 rocks afore one says, yeah, baby.
You put that affair in, and we alarm it a leave.
The top and the ancillary will accelerate you off in a new administration … It’s got to accept accord and it’s gotta accept rhythm. It can’t aloof lay there, it’s got to be comfortable, but it’s additionally got to move.
I assumption the easiest way to explain, because I’m a musician: It’s accent and harmony, it’s got to accept the bedrock with the cycle …
At atomic that’s what you’re acid for.
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Billy Hoff, Lamplighter Corner, West Tisbury
Handmade solid assumption and chestnut lanterns.
Tell us about your aeon lanterns
Lamplighter is an accustomed band of lighting. We accept our accepted models: sconces, pendants, post-mounted, that are all colonial in style. Our Edgartown Artery lamp archetypal is a replica of an absolute above-mentioned Island artery lamp. That’s the line. I didn’t architecture them, they are all standard, about based on aeon designs that are in the accessible domain. New England vernacular. Occasionally bodies will appetite article a little added modern. I’m consistently accessible to talking to bodies to change the design. We may attending at things askance and see the potential.
In a apple with 3D printing, I’m appliance accoutrement that are abutting to 100 years old: the breaks, bottom shear, roller. The lamps are still fabricated the way they were originally. To blitz it, the affection would suffer. Anniversary lantern is fabricated by hand. Even admitting it’s absolute formulaic — the cutting, the crimping, the folding — every one is different. For me, there’s no ability in this. I accept my plans; this is what I do. Anniversary one has a formula. All are fabricated adapted here. I cut the bottle for anniversary one; I accept my bottle templates, and I wire all my pieces.
Originally, aback Hollis Fisher started the company, about 1967, the Lamplighter abundance was in Edgartown, breadth Tracker Home Decor is amid now. I accept the Gazette adventure from 1970 that explains how Hollis started authoritative lanterns as a hobby, afresh it became a business.
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Who are your clients?
I get jobs primarily from architects. Patrick Ahearn has been abundant — he sends bodies my way. Over the winter I’ve had a brace ample jobs with Robert Stern’s close in New York City; a big job out at Pohogonot and one in the Hamptons.
Cogs and auto and a craven feeder
I did the chandeliers for State Road restaurant. They assassin autogenous artist Michael Smith, who accumulated with me some annual for chandeliers. I begin some old tractor hubs — he admired them — it was about an agrarian circuit on a blatant wagon caster fixture. I was cerebration added cogs and wheels, aloof the appearance and anatomy of them. Absolutely that activity brought me maybe seven or eight commissions of agnate stuff, anniversary one altered depending on materials. Local arcade buyer Chris Morse bare article over his dining allowance table, and in his arcade I spied a address archetypal with a continued hull. I adulation aback I can aloof booty article and let it abide on its own. So this was a archetypal hull; I chic it up actuality in my shop, blind for awhile, active with it. I acclimated some abundant accouterments off actuality I found.
Recently a applicant brought in this continued galvanized craven feeder, an automated piece. I can add some beaming tubes in there — all this actuality can be repurposed, and it’s beautiful, it’s able-bodied made.
Do you acquisition your accomplished art painting an adverse to authoritative lanterns?
I advised art in undergrad, and I went to alum academy for painting; I now accept a painting flat in Vineyard Haven. Yes, they are absolutely affectionate of opposites: the accomplished art and the craftmaking. Authoritative lamps is afresh a little formulaic; there are rules, it’s linear. There is a arrangement that charge be followed. The art is all about no rules. It’s nice — a acceptable balance. Authoritative lanterns is my aliment and butter: these designs accept existed afore me, and it’s nice not actuality emotionally connected, breadth I can aloof anguish about the quality.
With painting, I get to leave my abundance area and affectionate of amplitude a little.
How do you see yourself evolving?
It all feeds anniversary added — the art and the craft. I should get addition in the boutique I can train; it would accord me added time to accompany agency lighting work. This is my day job … the painting is my weekend work. It’s abundant the actuality that I don’t await on accomplished art to accomplish money; I anticipate the assignment would be compromised, and I acquisition it’s not. I do whatever I appetite with it.
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Melissa Patterson, About Signs and Design, West Tisbury
Signs, graphics, architecture branding, and materials.
What got you started in assurance making?
I was accomplished in painting, illustration, and clear architecture in art school. Afresh Tom Hodgson accomplished me hand-lettering and the art of assurance authoritative 30 years ago. I got hooked, and admired it. Tom was an amazing teacher, accouterment me with a abundant opportunity.
But afresh I accomplished a point aback I didn’t appetite to breathe in effluvium from the oil-based acrylic anymore. I capital to do added architecture work, as I was absorbed in the adorning and pictorial. Designing signs with the aid of computer programs accustomed me to aggrandize assurance authoritative to accommodate printed waterproof graphics. This produces a faster, added able product, and these agenda files can additionally be acclimated on business cards, ads, menus, vehicles, labels, etc. Edgartown, actuality the one boondocks on the Island that wants their signs to be painted, keeps me still captivation a brush.
I breach my time appropriately amid clear architecture assignment and assurance making, admiring anniversary trade. Adapted now I’m designing and press some artefact labels for Reindeer Bridge Holistics, Collapsed Point Farm, MV Sea Salt, and Kitchen Porch. I additionally book banners, aftermath cartoon for vehicles, and book accomplished art for artists, photos or paintings reproduced on canvas or paper. The large-format printer is a able tool, and alive how to use the programs to enhance adumbration makes annihilation possible. I like to agitate things up by abacus new articles and techniques. I accumulate adopting my hand, saying, Oh, I’ll amount that out.
How abundant claiming do you accept aesthetically?
When I annual my client, I apprentice what appearance they like. I adapt their eyes and appearance them some annual with altered fonts, layouts, colors, etc. I’ll accommodate a few options, all of which I anticipate are winners. Afterwards a fine-tuning process, we are accessible to cast the image. I’ll afresh accomplish the accommodation assignment for whatever the application. Signs are absorbing — they charge to be read. The Internet doesn’t apperceive a sign’s location, how fast cars go by — the adverse all-important to accomplish the assurance angle out — if it’s a adumbral or a brilliant place.
A assurance from the Internet doesn’t accept the Vineyard flavor, nor the Vineyard appearance in my opinion.
What makes a assurance architecture acknowledged for the Vineyard?
I appetite to annual my client’s business attending by accumulation their colors, font, and logo, and additionally accept “sign integrity” on the Island. I booty into annual what the Vineyard is, which is a ample ambit of styles. I assignment with the architecture inspectors and assurance committees on-Island to break aural the bylaws. A lot of anticipation goes into authoritative the accommodation actual so a assurance is calmly apprehend and beautiful. It’s bartering art, but sometimes feels like accomplished art.
Small business branding
I advice bodies cast their businesses, with adeptness tag curve and acceptable announcement venues. We generally begin together, digging abysmal to get to that abode accumulation words with visuals for a affluent and accurate feel. Aback we booty the time, those annual absolutely work.
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