Susan and I
started our business careers fresh out of college by
opening a small retail fireplace shop in 1974 here in
the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina.
This community sits atop the highest mountains
east of the Mississippi River, so cool summer breezes
and cold snowy winters have attracted new home builders
without a slowdown for more than seventy-five years
a perfect setting for a fireplace shop.
We sold high-quality products and learned very early
that there are people who truly recognize and appreciate
the finer things in life. We offered delivery and installation
service that the discount cash and carry stores couldn’t
or wouldn’t do.
We learned to custom build handmade wrought iron fire
screens, wood baskets, log racks and pot racks out of
the tools that our maker gave us iron, fire, wood and
passion.
Very quickly we had a growing, thriving business on
our hands.
Word of our unique offerings spread throughout this
land of mountain people, people who take pride in their
work and deserve to be called artisans. We surrounded
ourselves with these people and they helped us create
more products.
In 1982 we started making furniture using the same
natural elements of iron and wood, but added accents
of brass, copper and glass and the word continued
to spread.
Today, Susan and I and our daughter, Jamie, and son,
Brandon, who have both grown up in and now into our
business, take great pride in the fact that our products,
designed by, made by, sold by and serviced by more than
200 wonderful North Carolina mountain people are shipped
throughout the world
Our products are offered to you through a network of
highly qualified furniture stores, interior designers
and sales agents.
All of us at Charleston Forge truly appreciate your
interest and we hope you will use our dealer
locator page to contact our dealer nearest to you.
