About
One person, a small workshop in York, and a lot of contour lines.
The place comes first. The piece is what carries it.
I am Alistair, founder and designer at Fell & Forge. I work from a small workshop in York, and the work starts with somewhere real: a hill, a coast path, an old building that has been standing a long time.
A ridgeline is a good shape for a ring because it already means something to the person wearing it. It is a line they know, not a pattern chosen from a catalogue. That is the idea behind everything here: a piece should carry a real place, a real memory or a real set of coordinates, rather than a generic decoration.
Each design starts as research: contours, photographs and survey data, compared until the profile still reads at ring scale. It is modelled digitally, cast in sterling silver by a specialist casting partner, then the sprue is removed and the ring is finished and polished by hand at the bench. I check each piece against the original profile before it is photographed and packed.
- Where
- A small workshop in York
- Starts
- A hill, a coast path, an old building
- Design
- Digital modelling, from real contours
- Casting
- Sterling silver, by a specialist casting partner
- Finish
- By hand, in the York workshop
Fell & Forge is a growing body of work rather than a finished catalogue. Rings in sterling silver are where it sits today, built around the Three Peaks series. Coast, heritage and night sky directions are in development, along with pendants and bracelets, and none of them is available yet. Commissions run alongside all of it, a small number at a time.
It is early, and it is being built one piece at a time. That suits the work.