In the early 1900s, a Hungarian blacksmith named Martin Rose immigrated to Cleveland, Ohio, a booming center of iron and steel production. Drawn by the city’s industrial promise, Rose opened a small workshop focused on decorative metalwork. Inspired by Paris’s groundbreaking Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes, in 1925, he began transitioning from Art Nouveau to modern stylistic and technical possibilities. Not long after, he partnered with Paul Fehrer, a gifted young draftsman who’d trained in ornamental design and architectural detailing. Together, Rose and Fehrer transformed the family workshop into a leading Art Deco ironwork studio that produced grilles, gates, and fixtures for buildings across the U.S. This exhibition explores the remarkable history of their Cleveland-based atelier—still in operation today. —Elena Clavarino