The American Wood Column Corp is located in Brooklyn, New York. It’s one of the last holdouts of old-school woodwork manufacturing in the city and is officially NYC’s last wood column factory. The family company’s CEO Thomas Lupo is quite candid and charming about the history and reality of the business, which will soon closer its doors.
Check out this wonderful video from filmmaker Joshua Charow.
And read more about the company in this recent piece from NY Magazine’s Curbed:
The tour continued to the compo room, which houses a library of more than 9,000 ornamental casts, some dating back to the 1800s. Hand-labeled by number, they are stored like books, floor-to-ceiling, on shelves commanding three sides of the room. Here, craftsmen mix the compo and pour it into molds. When they dry, the ornaments — scrolls, rosettes, medallions, nosegays, feathers, curlicues — can be pressed onto surfaces like walls and ceilings, even furniture.
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