Charleston Blacksmith: The Work of Philip Simmons

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Charleston Blacksmith is a guidebook to the beautiful ironwork of Charleston createdby the historic city’s perfect-known blacksmith, Philip Simmons. Simmons’s matery of the craft and his love for the hammer and anvil are evident within the multiple hundred photographs of his ironwork which might be included on this book. Creator John Michael Vlach describes the methods, motifs, and materials employed in every piece and shares a few of Simmons’s personal recollections from the seventy years the blacksmith has spent perfecting his craft. A map of the city is included, giving both the site and a brief descriptionof every creation by Simmons. Readers will quickly be aware why Philip Simmons has been hailed a “living national treasure.”

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