Scarsi Bernardo S.n.c. is a craftsman family workshop, made up of three brothers: Gino, Serafino and Ivano (sons of Bernardo Scarsi) and Emiliano (son of Gino). That’s what we do every day:

• no frills but painstaking ironworks, made for practical and respectable purposes;
• carefully studied and designed ironworks, with the aim of expressing aesthetics and innovation (besides functionality) and improving the aspect of the background (house, square, garden, etc.)
• refined arworks resulting from the craftsman’s careful planning and research: here the objects (made of forged and wrought iron, or forged and wrought inox steel) become sculpure.

Scarsi Bernardo blacksmiths has recently received from the Piedmont Region the prestigious label of “Artisan Excellency” for common metals.

Scarsi Bernardo (1915-1995), skilled blacksmith and farrier, was born in Mantovana (near Rocca Grimalda, Alessandria, Piedmont). Very young, he began to work in his father’s workshop, but he had the possibility to improve and refine his craftsmanship during the Second World War, when he spent two years as a war prisoner in Eastern Germany, working in the workshop of a very experienced blacksmith: Mr. Raw August.

In 1945 he married Olga Giordano in Canale d’Alba (cn), and here he started his own blacksmith workshop, afterwards assisted by his three sons.

Farriery was abandoned in the Seventies, not willingly but for want of horses, and during the years all the techniques of iron working have been improved and refined, with passion and care.