Fire Flowers: Hand Sculpted in Bushwick
We have been making copper roses and flowers for more than 20 years. Over that time they came in different batches, from different makers. Now every Fire Flower is made in-house, in our metal shop in Bushwick, Brooklyn. Keeping the work under one roof lets us control the quality and the artistry of each piece. It also makes them rare: each one is sculpture first and object second.
How a Fire Flower is made
// Drafting. Every flower starts as a drawing.
// Cutting. The design is laid out and cut from sheet copper on a CNC.
// Hammering. Petals and leaves are hammered by hand to soften the metal.
// Shaping. Each petal is hand sculpted into the geometry of the flower.
// Brazing. The petals are brazed, one by one, onto the end of the copper pipe that forms the stem.
// Sculpting. Every surface is scrubbed, then bent and sculpted by hand, through three rounds of cleaning and bending, until the flower is finished.
No two come out the same. Each is numbered, one of an edition of eleven, handmade in America, in New York.
Living with one
Lit, a Fire Flower is a tabletop candle or an outdoor fire feature, running on a refillable one-pound propane canister. Unlit, it stands on its own as a copper sculpture. Each ships complete with the flower sculpture, canister, refill valve, thread tape and instructions.
