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AP Metalworks

Ari Pescovitz of AP Metalworks is a licensed architect and trained silversmith whose Judaica borrows from structure, like candlesticks that lean into an arch.

Craft: Laser-sintered stainless steel Judaica

Ari Pescovitz trained as a silversmith before he trained as an architect. At Indiana University he earned a BFA in metalsmithing and jewelry design, alongside degrees in anthropology and biology. Three works from his undergraduate thesis were published in Lark Books' 500 Judaica. He went on to a Master of Architecture at the University of Cincinnati, where his thesis won an award for excellence in detailing.

For more than a decade he worked in an ornamental metals shop in the Brooklyn Navy Yard, starting as a fabricator and draftsman and later serving as Design Director at Ferra Designs. There he turned architects' intent into stairs, façades and doors. In 2025 one of his duplex stair projects received the Top Job award at the NOMMA convention.

AP Metalworks brings that structural thinking to the Shabbat table. The Bikur Cholim candlesticks can't stand alone: joined by a dovetail, they lean together into a parabolic arch. The Zera kiddush cup cradles its bowl in an open lattice. Both are laser-sintered in stainless steel and made to order in the USA.

Good to know

Published inLark Books' 500 Judaica (2010)
AwardNOMMA Top Job, 2025 (duplex stair project)
Trained atM.Arch, University of Cincinnati; BFA metalsmithing, Indiana University