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Places to See: Hadar Metal Designs Sparks Up SOHO NYC

Written by Joseph Sheung-Yi Ng: New York’s Soho is known for it’s vibrant shopping and interesting galleries, but hidden in the midst of this shopping Mecca is a metal work shop producing one-off pieces of bicycle art. Hadar Metal Designs is windowless and nameless, but the storefront’s organic metal gate gives hint to what lies behind those door. Josh Hadar is the creative mind behind these master pieces, which are completely hand-built from ground up and all done without fancy computers or machines – just a lot of hammering, heat and time. Way to take it old school. Click Read More for additional information and photos.

Here is what Josh has to say from his website:

“What I love about metal sculpting and welding is that there is no standard building methods or techniques required to attain a desired result. I’m basically self-taught in my methods, which is predicated simply on trial and error. Each bike is a progression of intuitive process. The bikes seem to want to be built and the specific building methods seem to unfold as the development evolves. Like watching a film of an explosion run backwards, ideas, shapes and building techniques seem to come from total chaos and settle in one place.”