Navarro bronzer
Navarro bronzer
SINCE 1899 Museum-worthy bronze statues, lamps, letters, photo frames and crosses In 1875 he began his career in Valencia as a bronze craftsman José María Navarro Llombart, brother of the well-known writer of the Valencian Renaissance Carmel Navarro i Llombart
...In 1885 he moved his residence to Madrid and in 1899 he opened a bronzing workshop on Molino de Viento street in the Malasaña neighborhood. The workshop would change its location in the first decade of the 20th century to a place with two holes at number 15 of the nearby Casto Plasencia street. In 1922, a new license was requested to change the name of the business owner, since the workshop passed into the hands of the artisan's son, José María Navarro Parrondo. At the beginning of the 1940s, he moved his industry from Casto Plasencia to the nearby Calle de la Madera due to the destruction of the building caused by a bomb during the Civil War that completely demolished the building. In 1974, José María Navarro Cotillo, son of the former, took over, continuing with the family trade for 18 years, until he handed over the reins of the establishment to his son, José María Navarro Hernando, owner of the workshop since 1992 and dedicated to nickel-plated and artistic bronze such as statues, lamps, letters, photo frames and crosses. This fine craftsman has been rewarded for his good work, obtaining recognition for his works of restoration and manufacture of reproductions of bronze pieces for the Municipal and Romantic Museums of Madrid.
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