Design + Metal Fabrication
Hard-Décor
Turning design, visual suggestions, and fantasies into built realities — since 2001.
The Shop
Hard-Décor began with a detour. Founder Daniel Bailey studied architecture at Cornell, moved to New York in the late ’90s — and discovered the desk at an architecture firm wasn’t the job. The metal shop was.
Working in a Williamsburg metal shop, Bailey found his natural home: hands on steel, brass, and copper, turning other people’s drawings into physical things. In 2001 he opened Hard-Décor in Bushwick, Brooklyn.
Twenty-five years on, the shop consults with architects, artists, builders, and home and business owners — designing and fabricating restaurant interiors, retail build-outs, residences, furniture, and lighting. New York–based, with work installed nationally and internationally.
Services
Site Survey, Design & CAD Development
Every project starts with getting the site and the drawing right. We measure and survey on site, develop the design with you, and produce the CAD models and fabrication-ready shop drawings the build is made from.
Metal Fabrication
A full shop for every commercial metal — cut, formed, and finished under one roof in Bushwick, from storefronts and canopies to bars, stairs, and one-off architectural pieces.
Welding & Machining
Precision machining for custom parts and custom hardware — the pieces no catalog sells — joined by three welding disciplines and traditional brazing.
Sheet & Forming
Flat sheet becomes curved, folded, and architectural: water jet cutting for intricate profiles, CNC bending and rolling for repeatable form, shearing for clean production cuts.
Custom Finishing
The finish is the piece. Chemical patinas that age brass overnight, mirror-polished stainless, blackened steel sealed in wax — spec’d with the architect, sampled in the shop.
From Concept to Reality
Concept visualization — drag to compare.
Selected Work
Tap any project to view the full gallery — 79 photographs across 28 projects.
Clients
Architects, restaurateurs, retailers, and brands — from Steven Holl and Rockwell Group to the neighborhood spots that make New York taste like New York.
Join the Team
Are you a fine craftsman and metalworker who wants to build work worth signing?
Hard-Décor is always glad to meet skilled fabricators, welders, machinists, and finishers who take pride in the details. Tell us what you make.
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a project.
Bring a drawing, a photograph, a napkin sketch — or just the fantasy. Tell us what you’re building and the shop will take it from there.
- Shop
- 100 Ingraham Street
Brooklyn, New York 11237 - Telephone
- 917 559 6112
- Fax
- 718 874 0072
- Hours
- By appointment
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