BOUT STEVE Steve Fontanini is a designer and builder of forged metal work for home and business. Steve creates architectural forgings such as stair railings, gates, fire place accessories, furniture and sculptural pieces. Steve’s passion for art began early in life, being inspired by his father’s career as a professional photographer. This led Steve to attend the Art Center College of design. Forge work started in the early eighties when Steve began making his own horseshoes and other hand forged projects such as furniture and other small hardware pieces. After an apprenticeship in a large architectural shop in New Mexico Steve learned to forge larger projects in wider design arenas. Steve’s shop at Hoback Junction, Wyoming has forged metal projects for jobs all over the country from California to Pennsylvania to Florida and Texas not to mention right at home in Western Wyoming.