For Salvatore Ziranu the artistic craft of hand-forging wrought iron is an invaluable family know-how handed down to him from his early childhood by the renowned and highly regarded Ziranu blacksmith family of Orani, a village in the Barbagia area in central Sardinia, and which he carries on with enthusiasm. A fourth-generation craftsman, Salvatore learned the techniques of the craft from his father Silverio with genuine interest: traditional knowledge and skills that he further enriched with his distinctive personal and professional path in steel forging, thus increasing his expertise in the use of innovative procedures and equipment. He started working in 1992 at a very young age, initially in his father’s smithy, where, in time, he distinguished himself for precision and mastery, expressed by innovating and perfecting the traditional procedures in order to obtain a wide range of high-quality products of remarkable aesthetic value. In 2003 he set up his own smithy, where he works with the invaluable support of his wife Emanuela. This new and spacious workshop in the handicraft district in Orani has extensive exhibition space as well as spacious forging areas with modern equipment for a large number of diversified artefacts which nonetheless preserve the unmistakable quality and value of strictly hand-forged wrought iron made to last.