One-of-a-kind staircases built for private residences — blackened steel, hand-patinated bronze, and quarter-sawn oak, joined in a workshop where every rivet is set by eye.
A live, three-dimensional sketch. Adjust shape, metal, timber and detailing — your quote updates in real time. When you're ready, we refine it together in the atelier.
A small selection of staircases completed over the past three years. Full case studies and private-residence galleries available on request.
Founded in 2011 by master metalworker Tomas Ardern. Every staircase is drawn, forged, cut and finished under one roof — no subcontracting, no compromises.
We are a metalworking atelier first — ironmongers, welders, patinators — who learned joinery because our clients kept asking for it.
The workshop sits in a converted Victorian mill in West Yorkshire. Seven craftspeople. No production line. A staircase begins with a morning conversation, a sheet of tracing paper, and a walk around the site. It ends sixteen to twenty-six weeks later, installed in your home, annealed and polished by the same hands that drew it.
We favour blackened mild steel, hand-patinated bronze, and traditional wrought iron. For timber we work almost exclusively in quarter-sawn European oak, English walnut and ash, kiln-dried on premises for a minimum of eighteen months.
A staircase is a piece of architecture lived with every day. We're grateful when our clients take the time to tell us how it holds up.
Tomas spent a full afternoon walking the house before lifting a pencil. The result is a stair that feels inevitable — as though it had always been here.Charlotte & Henry Wynn-Carrington Private residence · Chelsea
We spec Ferrolignum for every heritage project we touch. Their ironwork has a weight and patina nobody else seems able to match.Marcus de Vries de Vries Studio Architects · London
Four years on, the bronze handrail has taken on a warmth I didn't think was possible. It is, without question, the finest thing in the house.Dr. Anneke Roth Country house · Perthshire
For anything not covered below, write to us directly. We read every enquiry personally.
Tell us a little about the project — the house, the space the stair will occupy, and what you have in mind. Tomas will reply personally within two working days.