A design house for forged wheels.
I spent years behind a camera, shooting cars for automotive brands across Toronto. When the industry paused in 2020, I built a workshop and went deep into making. It started with jewelry — lost-wax casting, hand forging, hand polishing through grit progressions — and grew into the full manufacturing stack. CNC milling and turning. SLA, SLS, wax printing. Anodizing, plating, patination. What alloys quench in oil versus water. What survives a vibratory tumbler with ceramic media versus an ultrasonic versus steam. CAD in Rhino and Fusion. The full discipline from sketch to finished metal.
Through the lens I'd already seen every wheel, from every angle, in every frame of motion. When I went looking for forged wheels for my own car, what I'd been noticing for years became impossible to ignore — the industry was designing the same wheel, remixed. The most visible part of any car was also the least considered.
Artico began there. I wanted to pull from something older — the engineering and intricacy of European cathedrals — and bring that language into forged aluminum. Not as ornament. As structure.
Artico is a design house. The first chapter is Cathedral. The craft is the constant.
Collections, not catalogs.
Artico operates in collections. Each carries a single design language. Cathedral is the first. Each commission within a collection is numbered; once a collection's run is complete, the tooling is retired. There is no outlet. There is no sale. There is no discount. The work is the work.
Cathedral is the first chapter.
Cathedral I is one set, within one collection, within one house. More is coming. Each chapter will carry its own design language. The craft will hold.