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ADDRESS:
Avenida Cañada Real, 6 – 41740 Lebrija
ACTIVITY
The team at Antonio González Romero’s workshop are specialists in traditional Andalusian grillwork. They make a range of items such as stair railings, wrought-iron balconies, front doors, iron gates, etc.
They use traditional methods such as riveting, crimping, blueing and forge finishing.
Their raw material is soft… iron and their main implements are anvils, hammers, tongs, punches and above all their forge.
TRAINING
Antonio learned his craft at the Lebrija Trade School directed by Donald Gray, where the pupils would learn from scratch, make their own tools and do everything by hand: they would assemble workpieces with rivets, crimping patterns with clamps, and make artefacts in the forge… to be subsequently filed down and blued with oil. Today they continue to use these techniques.
TEACHING
Several apprentices have been trained in the workshop.
SELECTED WORK
Restoration of the central balustrade, iron fittings, nails and hinges of the main doors of the Church of La Oliva in Lebrija (Seville province)
Wrought-iron May cross for the Seville Museum of Arts and Traditions
Grillwork for the whole Castle of Segura de León (Badajoz province)
Lamps and… grilles in the Dorantes Saddlery Museum in Lebrija
