Foundry & Forge

Heavy cast iron and worked steel from the foundries of the Rust Belt — Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and the Great Lakes region, 1860s to 1950s. Shoe lasts and cobblers' templates. Industrial sewing machines and the cast iron that brought the garment trade into American communities and put wages in working hands. Pulleys, machinery components, and the iron objects that built the American century. Farming tools, outdoor equipment, and the agricultural iron that fed the cities the forge was building. These pieces were never made for display. They were made to work. That is exactly why they belong here.

The grittiness that created the gilded states.

collection no. 02

About This Collection

Industrial style gets done wrong more often than right. The real thing — a cast-iron bracket pulled from a Detroit factory, a foundry gear repurposed as a table base, an exposed-rivet beam mount used as a shelf support — has a weight and authority that no reproduction can fake.

Foundry & Forge is Lyndze’s hunt through salvage yards, architectural deconstruction sites, and factory dispersals across Michigan and Ohio. Everything here is the genuine article, with the wear patterns that only decades of actual factory service produce. Heavy cast-grey iron with authentic surface oxidation. Structural steel brackets with visible rivet heads. Sand-cast foundry molds. Industrial brass valves and gauges from early American manufacture. Architectural hardware designed to hold real weight — because it did.