Iron Eden A Natural For Pittsburgh

What could be more fitting than for a city once known as the iron and steel making capital of the world than to become the home of John Walter, a blacksmith and owner of Iron Eden?

Walter's free-flowing, nature-based creations – gates, chairs, staircases, trellises, tables and sculptures featuring trees and flowers that curve and jut in all directions- would look at home in Alice's Wonderland or in a scene from "The Nightmare Before Christmas." 


Admittedly, organic iron work is his signature style.  Iron Eden's one-of-a-kind artwork has been springing up all over the city for the past quarter of a century. At Phipps Conservatory, Walter conjured up "Gates of Hell," featuring iron tree branches rising from the ground like flame.  He also restored gates at the 100-room Sewickley Heights estate of industrialist Benjamin Franklin Jones. The fixtures and mirrors at Maxalto and Moda  in Shadyside and a wood-burning pizza oven at Enrico's are all his creations.


The material for many of Walter's creations comes from industrial and manufacturing leftovers. He says their scrap is his beginning piece.  Walter's shop, Iron Eden,  is located in Bloomfield at 4071 Liberty Ave. Take a drive by, or even stop in.  Either way you'll instantly know this is a very very extraordinary place.

Bloomfield
Enrico's
Iron Eden
Maxalto
Metro Pittsburgh Real Estate
Moda
Phipps Conservatory
Shadyside