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At the Architectural Digest Show, Compass Ironworks will be showcasing great design, excellent craftsmanship, utilizing 97-100% recycled material and with a durable finish that withstands harsh elements at the shore, yet is 99.99% reclaimable and VOC free. Compass Iron Security will be providing attendees to see cutting edge technology in estate gate access control and automation.…

Coming up is an opportunity for an Educational session on “Demystifying Ironwork.” Every year, hundreds of landscape architects descend upon the NJASLA conference for the latest in thought, design and specification leadership. This year, Amos Glick, President of Compass Ironworks, will be hosting this educational session. The event runs March 12-14. The Course Objective are stated below:…

Garden Spot Village is a retirement community in New Holland, PA. They redesigned and renovated their main foyer, and as part of the project had a fake tree specified for the focal part of the main foyer. When one of the Garden Spot staff saw a past tree sculpture created by Compass, he was excited…

UPDATE 4-27-2017 This project won Gold in the National Top Job competition. Other entries were elegant, contemporary, and very modern. Each had it’s own details and specific obstacles to over come and the finish projects worked well with the rest of the design of the homes they were installed in. A very tough competition! What garnered this…

The LOVE sculpture is quite popular, and a wedding facility wanted this for the bride and groom to take photos, or the entire wedding party to drape themselves over this exceptional scupture. Created out of 3/16″ aluminum plate 3 ft. deep, 6 ft. wide and 6 ft. high, the color scheme was Phillies Red, Eagles…

The client wanted a bar rail to match their Iron grills we had made for the wine cellar doors. To keep the same visual dimension, they wanted 1-1/2” square solid bar twisted as tight as possible. The challenge was to radius the square twisted bar to fit the bar radius. It was impossible to radius it…

An exceptional shore home required double floating helical stairs, to suit the client’s desire of “A stair like nothing else in the world.” There also was a need for a set of double spiral stairs in the back of the house as well. One goal of Compass Ironwork is to meet or exceed client’s expectations. So instead…

Sometimes we get to work on unusual projects that belong in the “sculpture” category. A past client wanted a heart sculpture for a photo op at a wedding facility for the bride and groom. The design team selected this intertwining heart. They loved the abstract lines with all the movement of the various surfaces. We…

These photos are of a contemporary railing utilizing traditional Iron alloy, and with ages old method of blackening and renaissance wax. The designs also called for scale texture to be visible, which in some pieces was natural and for some pieces we had to create intentionally for it to be harmonious.
 Bottom photos are polished stainless…

Back in the summer, Stein-Houck approached us about the possibility of incorporating Iron in this beautiful Entryway. We huddled with the contractor and door craftsmen and collaboratively came up with an aggressive schedule that would provide installation of complete entry doors in time for decorating for the holidays. All collaboration was done through CAD so…