Welcome

Welcome to the Krason’s Group, the ultimate destination for all your ornamental wrought iron work needs. We provide almost everything that you could possibly require to design your project exactly how you want in terms of ornamental wrought iron products. Whether you are looking for small residential wrought iron products, or you are the building contractor who needs iron work, railings,driveway gates, balconies,gates, fencing and much much more we are ready to take on any challenge to meet your expectations. All of our team members are highly skilled, professional and backed with extensive individual experience. Our employees are always ready and willing to undertake the most daring projects and demands.

Architectural Iron Works

A custom piece of architectural metalwork will personalize your home, office, or business building. It will bring the warmth of fine hand-crafted artwork to any environment. We work with our clients to develop a design that corresponds to their personal vision, their tastes, and the architectural setting.

Welcome

Welcome to the Krason’s Group, the ultimate destination for all your ornamental wrought iron work needs. We provide almost everything that you could possibly require to design your project exactly how you want in terms of ornamental wrought iron products. Whether you are looking for small residential wrought iron products, or you are the building contractor who needs iron work, railings,driveway gates, balconies,gates, fencing and much much more we are ready to take on any challenge to meet your expectations. All of our team members are highly skilled, professional and backed with extensive individual experience. Our employees are always ready and willing to undertake the most daring projects and demands.

Architectural Iron

Works

A custom piece of architectural metalwork will personalize your home, office, or business building. It will bring the warmth of fine hand-crafted artwork to any environment. We work with our clients to develop a design that corresponds to their personal vision, their tastes, and the architectural setting.

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About Us

Customer satisfaction is our top priority. You can be confident that our products are made to be of the highest standards. With over 16 years of experience, we have the craftsmanship and the attention to detail that only a blacksmith can provide for a superior product. From traditional intricate styles to more simpler contemporary designs, we offer a wide variety of options to suit all tastes. Each job has its own touch of flair and individuality, something that can only be achieved with a hand-made product. No work can be identically reproduced anywhere else, guaranteeing your satisfaction of unique ownership. Our quality and finish conform to the highest industry standards and yet always fit inside your budget.

About Us

Customer satisfaction is our top priority. You can be confident that our products are made to be of the highest standards. With over 16 years of experience, we have the craftsmanship and the attention to detail that only a blacksmith can provide for a superior product. From traditional intricate styles to more simpler contemporary designs, we offer a wide variety of options to suit all tastes. Each job has its own touch of flair and individuality, something that can only be achieved with a hand-made product. No work can be identically reproduced anywhere else, guaranteeing your satisfaction of unique ownership. Our quality and finish conform to the highest industry standards and yet always fit inside your budget.

Ornamental Iron Work Services

Without ever compromising the quality of materials, time or finish our prices remain very competitive. Krason Group Corp has been providing Chicagoland with highest quality custom wrought iron work for over 16 years. We’re a family owned business specializing in custom hand-forged ornamental iron. Our mission is to bring you an experience as unique as the pieces that we create. From the initial design by our distinguished designers to the craftsmanship of our team of expert blacksmiths, we ensure that the beauty of our design complements yours. By combining traditional processes with technology, we can unleash unrivaled creativity, while ensuring that every detail exceeds your expectations. Whether you’re looking for a beautiful modern straight business look, or traditional elaborate artful design, our expert blacksmiths and designers will provide you with a durable and unique solutions for many years to come We Provide for All Of Our Clients: Prnamental wrought iron designing Ornamental wrought iron fabricating Ornamental wrought iron installation All our installations are done by trained professionals to provide you with the highest quality service.

Ornamental Wought Iron Fences

Wrought Iron fencing is one of the most elegant ways to stand out in your neighborhood. Whether you’re looking for a simple yet sophisticated design, or a complex elaborate look, our team of experts will provide you with a handcrafted design that uniquely fits your style. We will be with you every step of the way making sure that every decision is up to your specifications.

Ornamental Wrought Iron Gates

By choosing the durability and resistance of wrought iron, you can rest assured that your gate will look great for many years to come. Wrought iron is strong enough to withstand impact and resist the elements, so you can be assured that your investment is secure Ornamental wrought iron gates are a great way to express your design. From contemporary to the classical highly ornate lines, the gate is a perfect opportunity to communicate your uniqueness to the visitor right from the get go

Ornamental Wrought Iron Railings

Wrought iron railing are the perfect way to add elaborate classy touch to any staircase, whether indoor or outdoor - the unique railing becomes an instant focal point that will definitely leave a positive and lasting impression. All our wrought iron railings are entirely custom and hand crafted pieces perfectly fitting and augmenting your design. All of our products are manufactured to the highest standard of craftsmanship, we work alongside you and communicate efficiently to make sure that we are meeting and exceeding your expectations

Ornamental Iron

Work Services

Without ever compromising the quality of materials, time or finish our prices remain very competitive. Krason Group Corp has been providing Chicagoland with highest quality custom wrought iron work for over 16 years. We’re a family owned business specializing in custom hand-forged ornamental iron. Our mission is to bring you an experience as unique as the pieces that we create. From the initial design by our distinguished designers to the craftsmanship of our team of expert blacksmiths, we ensure that the beauty of our design complements yours. By combining traditional processes with technology, we can unleash unrivaled creativity, while ensuring that every detail exceeds your expectations. Whether you’re looking for a beautiful modern straight business look, or traditional elaborate artful design, our expert blacksmiths and designers will provide you with a durable and unique solutions for many years to come We Provide for All Of Our Clients: Prnamental wrought iron designing Ornamental wrought iron fabricating Ornamental wrought iron installation All our installations are done by trained professionals to provide you with the highest quality service.

Ornamental

Wought Iron

Fences

Wrought Iron fencing is one of the most elegant ways to stand out in your neighborhood. Whether you’re looking for a simple yet sophisticated design, or a complex elaborate look, our team of experts will provide you with a handcrafted design that uniquely fits your style. We will be with you every step of the way making sure that every decision is up to your specifications.

Ornamental

Wrought Iron

Gates

By choosing the durability and resistance of wrought iron, you can rest assured that your gate will look great for many years to come. Wrought iron is strong enough to withstand impact and resist the elements, so you can be assured that your investment is secure Ornamental wrought iron gates are a great way to express your design. From contemporary to the classical highly ornate lines, the gate is a perfect opportunity to communicate your uniqueness to the visitor right from the get go

Ornamental

Wrought Iron

Railings

Wrought iron railing are the perfect way to add elaborate classy touch to any staircase, whether indoor or outdoor - the unique railing becomes an instant focal point that will definitely leave a positive and lasting impression. All our wrought iron railings are entirely custom and hand crafted pieces perfectly fitting and augmenting your design. All of our products are manufactured to the highest standard of craftsmanship, we work alongside you and communicate efficiently to make sure that we are meeting and exceeding your expectations

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HISTORY OF ORNAMENTAL IRON

Wrought iron

Wrought ironwork is forged by a blacksmith using an anvil. The earliest known ironwork are beads from Jirzah in Egypt dating from 3500 BC and made from meteoric iron with the earliest use of smelted iron dates back to Mesopotamia. However, the first use of conventional smelting and purification techniques that modern society labels as true iron-working dates back to the Hittites in around 2000 BC. Knowledge about the use of iron spread from the Middle East to Greece and the Aegean region by 1000BC and had reached western and central Europe by 600BC. However, its use was primarily utilitarian for weapons and tools before the Middle Ages. Due to rusting, very little remains of early ironwork. From the medieval period, use of ironwork for decorative purposes became more common. Iron was used to protect doors and windows of valuable places from attack from raiders and was also used for decoration as can be seen at Canterbury Cathedral, Winchester Cathedral and Notre Dame de Paris. Armour also was decorated, often simply but occasionally elaborately. From the 16th century onwards, ironwork became highly ornate especially in the Baroque and Rococo periods. In Spain, elaborate screens of iron or rejería were built in all of the Spanish cathedrals rising up to nine metres high. In France, highly decorative iron balconies, stair railings and gateways were highly fashionable from 1650. Jean Tijou brought the style to England and examples of his work can be seen at Hampton Court and St Pauls Cathedral. Wrought ironwork was widely used in the UK during the 18th in gates and railings in London and towns such as Oxford and Cambridge. In the US, ironwork features more prominently in New Orleans than elsewhere due to its French influence. As iron became more common, it became widely used for cooking utensils, stoves, grates, locks, hardware and other household uses. From the beginning of the 19th century, wrought iron was being replaced by cast iron due to the latter's lower cost. However, the English Arts and Crafts Movement produced some excellent work in the middle of the 19th century. In modern times, much modern wrought work is done using the air hammer and the acetylene torch. A number of modern sculptors have worked in iron including Pablo Picasso, Julio González and David Smith.

WHAT IS RELE WROUGHT IRON ?

Wrought iron is an iron alloy with a very low carbon (0.1 to 0.25%) content in contrast to cast iron (2.1% to 4%), and has fibrous inclusions, known as slag up to 2% by weight. It is a semi-fused mass of iron with slag inclusions which gives it a "grain" resembling wood, that is visible when it is etched or bent to the point of failure. Wrought iron is tough, malleable, ductile and easily welded. Historically, it was known as commercially pure iron;[1][2] however, it no longer qualifies because current standards for commercially pure iron require a carbon content of less than 0.008 wt%.[3][4] Before the development of effective methods of steelmaking and the availability of large quantities of steel, wrought iron was the most common form of malleable iron. A modest amount of wrought iron was used as a raw material for refining into steel, which was used mainly to produce swords, cutlery, chisels, axes and other edged tools as well as springs and files. The demand for wrought iron reached its peak in the 1860s with the adaptation of ironclad warships and railways, but then declined as mild steel quality problems such as brittleness were solved and it became inexpensive and widely available. Many items, before they came to be made of mild steel, were produced from wrought iron, including rivets, nails, wire, chains, rails, railway couplings, water and steam pipes, nuts, bolts, horseshoes, handrails, straps for timber roof trusses, and ornamental ironwork. Wrought iron is no longer produced on a commercial scale. Many products described as wrought iron, such as guard rails, garden furniture and gates, are made of mild steel. They retain that description because in the past they were wrought (worked) by hand.

What is blacksmithing?

It is the art of manipulating iron or steel by forging it: heating it to incandescence and forming it into different shapes using force supplied by hand hammers, power hammers, fly-presses and hydraulic presses; and often using tools driven by hammer or press. Forging is distinct from casting and from fabrication. The best way of understanding the process is to compare it to pottery: the hot metal has the consistency of very stiff clay and can be shaped accordingly. It does not become liquid during the forging process.

What is blacksmithing good for?

Versatility. Creativity. Utility. No other method of manipulating iron and steel has so many different facets. No other metal is as useful as steel. Forging is the primary method for manufacturing cutlery, tools, engine parts (which are subsequently machined), machinery, hardware, etc. In fact, the final process of steel-making, the rolling process, is a form of forging.

What distinguishes forged work from casting and

fabrication?

Casting (founding): This is the equally challenging art of melting metal and pouring it into a mould. Most of the skill is in the mould-making, though the running of a furnace is not to be taken lightly. Iron for casting has a very high carbon content compared with steels used for forging. It is brittle when not molten; thus heating it to a red heat and hitting it just causes it to shatter. Fabrication: Iron construction using lengths of steel joined by welding or (rarely nowdays) riveting. Useful but utilitarian. The shape of the individual pieces of metal is not changed except by bending (usually done cold), whereas the primary aim in blacksmithing is to radically alter the cross- section and longitudinal shape of the supplied steel to get imaginative new forms. Bridges, jails, skyscrapers, Eiffel towers, oil-rigs, ships, and many, many railings, gates and other architectural elements are made with the fabrication process. Both of these processes are used for industrial production and for artistic expression. Though casting is a superbly creative process it does not have the flexibility and immediacy of forging, and an eye trained in the observation of forged work will find fabricated work lifeless.

Is forged work better than cast or fabricated?

Forging is not better for all purposes, but there are applications where forging is far superior - often items that are cast or fabricated would benefit from a rethink in their design which considers the forging process. This is not to say that either process is eschewed by smiths: some use bespoke cast elements where needed, and many innovative fabrication tools and techniques have been gratefully assimilated by smiths for practical reasons.

What is the benefit of buying a hand forged item rather than

something fabricated or mass produced?

Esthetic quality: the same advantage there is in buying an original work of art. The work of art costs more, but you can have it tailor made in style and scale and so that it expresses your taste; it will turn heads and it can survive for hundreds of years as an enrichment to the environment. Build quality: blacksmiths primarily join the various pieces of a construction using mortise and tenon joints, fire-welding, rivets, collars, and sometimes entirely new methods invented for the project at hand. Fabricators weld around the surface of abutting pieces. In the words of one of our members, “you wouldn’t buy a piece of wooden furniture with the glue on the outside of the joints would you?”

Why are a fabricator’s bespoke gates cheaper than an artist

blacksmith’s?

Artist blacksmiths approach design from the standpoint of artists rather than craftsmen, and this takes more time and effort. Forging is a great deal more labour- intensive and time-consuming than fabrication, but the innovation, attention to quality and to detail show in the finished product. Fabricators do a good job in the utilitarian sense, and the result may even superficially resemble a traditional forged gate, but they are not artists. There is nothing like the real thing for quality, longevity, beauty and design versatility. Wrought iron is actually a material, not a descriptive term for items made in iron. Wrought iron is the forgeable ferrous material made until about the mid-twentieth century that has been replaced by modern mild steel. It was originally called “wrought” (“worked”) to distinguish it from cast, or poured iron, because its manufacture required extensive forming under power hammers and through rollers. It is characterised by its composite nature: it is fibrous, like wood, though you cannot tell that by looking at it unless it has been broken or badly corroded. The fibrous material is iron silicate, intimately mingled with the iron, and it gives wrought iron a combination of resistance to corrosion, plasticity when hot and tensile strength when cold that are generally greater than in mild steel. Carbon content is typically very low and the old iron welds beautifully with just incandescent heat and the hammer. It was expensive to make, and variable in quality. It did not lend itself well to high-speed production processes, but some smiths still seek out scrap wrought iron, or buy reprocessed wrought iron, because they prefer it to mild steel.

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HISTORY OF ORNAMENTAL IRON

Wrought iron

Wrought ironwork is forged by a blacksmith using an anvil. The earliest known ironwork are beads from Jirzah in Egypt dating from 3500 BC and made from meteoric iron with the earliest use of smelted iron dates back to Mesopotamia. However, the first use of conventional smelting and purification techniques that modern society labels as true iron-working dates back to the Hittites in around 2000 BC. Knowledge about the use of iron spread from the Middle East to Greece and the Aegean region by 1000BC and had reached western and central Europe by 600BC. However, its use was primarily utilitarian for weapons and tools before the Middle Ages. Due to rusting, very little remains of early ironwork. From the medieval period, use of ironwork for decorative purposes became more common. Iron was used to protect doors and windows of valuable places from attack from raiders and was also used for decoration as can be seen at Canterbury Cathedral, Winchester Cathedral and Notre Dame de Paris. Armour also was decorated, often simply but occasionally elaborately. From the 16th century onwards, ironwork became highly ornate especially in the Baroque and Rococo periods. In Spain, elaborate screens of iron or rejería were built in all of the Spanish cathedrals rising up to nine metres high. In France, highly decorative iron balconies, stair railings and gateways were highly fashionable from 1650. Jean Tijou brought the style to England and examples of his work can be seen at Hampton Court and St Pauls Cathedral. Wrought ironwork was widely used in the UK during the 18th in gates and railings in London and towns such as Oxford and Cambridge. In the US, ironwork features more prominently in New Orleans than elsewhere due to its French influence. As iron became more common, it became widely used for cooking utensils, stoves, grates, locks, hardware and other household uses. From the beginning of the 19th century, wrought iron was being replaced by cast iron due to the latter's lower cost. However, the English Arts and Crafts Movement produced some excellent work in the middle of the 19th century. In modern times, much modern wrought work is done using the air hammer and the acetylene torch. A number of modern sculptors have worked in iron including Pablo Picasso, Julio González and David Smith.

WHAT IS RELE WROUGHT IRON ?

Wrought iron is an iron alloy with a very low carbon (0.1 to 0.25%) content in contrast to cast iron (2.1% to 4%), and has fibrous inclusions, known as slag up to 2% by weight. It is a semi-fused mass of iron with slag inclusions which gives it a "grain" resembling wood, that is visible when it is etched or bent to the point of failure. Wrought iron is tough, malleable, ductile and easily welded. Historically, it was known as commercially pure iron;[1][2] however, it no longer qualifies because current standards for commercially pure iron require a carbon content of less than 0.008 wt%.[3][4] Before the development of effective methods of steelmaking and the availability of large quantities of steel, wrought iron was the most common form of malleable iron. A modest amount of wrought iron was used as a raw material for refining into steel, which was used mainly to produce swords, cutlery, chisels, axes and other edged tools as well as springs and files. The demand for wrought iron reached its peak in the 1860s with the adaptation of ironclad warships and railways, but then declined as mild steel quality problems such as brittleness were solved and it became inexpensive and widely available. Many items, before they came to be made of mild steel, were produced from wrought iron, including rivets, nails, wire, chains, rails, railway couplings, water and steam pipes, nuts, bolts, horseshoes, handrails, straps for timber roof trusses, and ornamental ironwork. Wrought iron is no longer produced on a commercial scale. Many products described as wrought iron, such as guard rails, garden furniture and gates, are made of mild steel. They retain that description because in the past they were wrought (worked) by hand.

What is blacksmithing?

It is the art of manipulating iron or steel by forging it: heating it to incandescence and forming it into different shapes using force supplied by hand hammers, power hammers, fly-presses and hydraulic presses; and often using tools driven by hammer or press. Forging is distinct from casting and from fabrication. The best way of understanding the process is to compare it to pottery: the hot metal has the consistency of very stiff clay and can be shaped accordingly. It does not become liquid during the forging process.

What is blacksmithing good for?

Versatility. Creativity. Utility. No other method of manipulating iron and steel has so many different facets. No other metal is as useful as steel. Forging is the primary method for manufacturing cutlery, tools, engine parts (which are subsequently machined), machinery, hardware, etc. In fact, the final process of steel-making, the rolling process, is a form of forging.

What distinguishes forged work from casting and

fabrication?

Casting (founding): This is the equally challenging art of melting metal and pouring it into a mould. Most of the skill is in the mould-making, though the running of a furnace is not to be taken lightly. Iron for casting has a very high carbon content compared with steels used for forging. It is brittle when not molten; thus heating it to a red heat and hitting it just causes it to shatter. Fabrication: Iron construction using lengths of steel joined by welding or (rarely nowdays) riveting. Useful but utilitarian. The shape of the individual pieces of metal is not changed except by bending (usually done cold), whereas the primary aim in blacksmithing is to radically alter the cross-section and longitudinal shape of the supplied steel to get imaginative new forms. Bridges, jails, skyscrapers, Eiffel towers, oil-rigs, ships, and many, many railings, gates and other architectural elements are made with the fabrication process. Both of these processes are used for industrial production and for artistic expression. Though casting is a superbly creative process it does not have the flexibility and immediacy of forging, and an eye trained in the observation of forged work will find fabricated work lifeless.

Is forged work better than cast or

fabricated?

Forging is not better for all purposes, but there are applications where forging is far superior - often items that are cast or fabricated would benefit from a rethink in their design which considers the forging process. This is not to say that either process is eschewed by smiths: some use bespoke cast elements where needed, and many innovative fabrication tools and techniques have been gratefully assimilated by smiths for practical reasons.

What is the benefit of buying a hand

forged item rather than something

fabricated or mass produced?

Esthetic quality: the same advantage there is in buying an original work of art. The work of art costs more, but you can have it tailor made in style and scale and so that it expresses your taste; it will turn heads and it can survive for hundreds of years as an enrichment to the environment. Build quality: blacksmiths primarily join the various pieces of a construction using mortise and tenon joints, fire-welding, rivets, collars, and sometimes entirely new methods invented for the project at hand. Fabricators weld around the surface of abutting pieces. In the words of one of our members, “you wouldn’t buy a piece of wooden furniture with the glue on the outside of the joints would you?”

Why are a fabricator’s bespoke gates

cheaper than an artist blacksmith’s?

Artist blacksmiths approach design from the standpoint of artists rather than craftsmen, and this takes more time and effort. Forging is a great deal more labour-intensive and time-consuming than fabrication, but the innovation, attention to quality and to detail show in the finished product. Fabricators do a good job in the utilitarian sense, and the result may even superficially resemble a traditional forged gate, but they are not artists. There is nothing like the real thing for quality, longevity, beauty and design versatility. Wrought iron is actually a material, not a descriptive term for items made in iron. Wrought iron is the forgeable ferrous material made until about the mid-twentieth century that has been replaced by modern mild steel. It was originally called “wrought” (“worked”) to distinguish it from cast, or poured iron, because its manufacture required extensive forming under power hammers and through rollers. It is characterised by its composite nature: it is fibrous, like wood, though you cannot tell that by looking at it unless it has been broken or badly corroded. The fibrous material is iron silicate, intimately mingled with the iron, and it gives wrought iron a combination of resistance to corrosion, plasticity when hot and tensile strength when cold that are generally greater than in mild steel. Carbon content is typically very low and the old iron welds beautifully with just incandescent heat and the hammer. It was expensive to make, and variable in quality. It did not lend itself well to high-speed production processes, but some smiths still seek out scrap wrought iron, or buy reprocessed wrought iron, because they prefer it to mild steel.

Interior Ornamental Iron Railings

Krason's Group can design and f

abricate any style from traditional

ornamental wrought to modern

and contemporary. Our interior

ornamental railings, exterior iron

railings, custom aluminum railings,

balconies, juliet balconies,decorative

gates for driveway, wrought iron

fences can be done with steel,

stainless steel or ferrous metals like

aluminum, bronze or brass

We pride ourselves on the high

standard of work we produce which

we hope you can see from the

sample of photographs we have

selected for this page.

We always take into account your

personal needs and tastes and with

our flexible competitively priced service

it means we can work around

your schedule and budget.

Exterior Ornamental Iron Railings and Balconies

Wrought Iron Fences and Gates

Miscellaneous

Interior Ornamental Iron Railings

Krason's Group can design and fabricate any style

from traditional ornamental wrought to modern

and contemporary. Our interior ornamental railings,

exterior iron railings, custom aluminum railings,

balconies, juliet balconies,decorative gates for driveway,

wrought iron fences can be done with steel, stainless steel

or ferrous metals like aluminum, bronze or brass

We pride ourselves on the high standard of work

we produce which we hope you can see from the s

ample of photographs we have selected for this page.

We always take into account your personal needs

and tastes and with our flexible competitively

priced service it means we can work around

your schedule and budget.

Exterior Ornamental Iron Railings and Balconies

Wrought Iron Fences and Gates

Miscellaneous

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