[TheForge] Cyril Colnik

[ries]

One of the Abana conferences- I think it was La Crosse- had a big  
exhibit of real pieces of his work, along with a video.
He was great.
My wife did a project in Milwaukee, probably at least ten years ago,  
and she did quite a bit of research on older metalwork there- she  
ended up using a lot of pieces the city had removed, but that  
employees had "tucked away" because they couldnt bear to see it  
tossed- no Colnik work, but old cast iron parts and pieces, stone, and  
so on.
In the time she was there, she met a guy who is a one man urban  
preservation squad in Milwaukee- he lived in a huge old mansion he  
bought for peanuts in a bad neighborhood, and it was full of parts of  
buildings he saved as they were being torn down. He had several very  
large Colnik pieces, fences and rails. His 3rd floor ballroom was so  
full of building parts that you could not walk in it, and his other  
8000sq ft or so, along with his huge yard, was also stacked to the  
gills with wood, metal, glass and stone.
Milwaukee was once one of the wealthiest cities in america, and the  
germans who lived there built magnificent homes and businesses. Too  
bad, in the 60's and 70's, a lot was torn down without a thought- the  
wife also has a great book of milwaukee architecture photos, with lots  
of gems that are gone.

Ries


On Jul 2, 2008, at 8:30 PM, Mike Linn wrote:

if you ever get to Milwaukee you really need to go see this..

http://tinyurl.com/6mphm6


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Mike Linn
Artisan Blacksmith
McCalla, AL

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