Built to
create.
Sculptor · Fabricator · Storyteller
I’ve spent my life making things with my hands. Today, I bring that experience to sculpture, furniture, and objects that carry a story.
RON DYRCZ / NEW LENOX, ILLINOISA lifetime
of making.
Woodworker. Sawyer. Welder. Designer. Artist. Different tools, driven by the same curiosity.
I’m Ron Dyrcz, the maker behind Ronders Wood & Metal Works. My work has grown through years of working with wood and metal—learning how materials behave, how things are built, and how an idea becomes something you can touch.
Furniture taught me to think about how an object lives with people. Fabrication taught me how to give an idea structure. Sculpture brings those experiences together with imagination and storytelling.
Whether I’m making a functional piece or a work of art, I want it to mean something to the person who lives with it.
Seeing possibility
in the material.
Some of my favorite projects begin with a tree that would otherwise become firewood or go through a chipper. I mill local logs into lumber and give that wood a new life as furniture.
In 2018, a turnbuckle bracket design and pine milled from the property became the beginning of my wall bar designs. That same hands-on approach still runs through the work: pay attention, experiment, and build something worth keeping.
My sculpture grows from that same instinct—to see what a material can become, and find the story inside it.
Material. Meaning.
Making.
Let it have character.
The grain in a piece of wood. The surface of weathered steel. The marks of making. These are part of what gives an object its presence.
Give it a reason.
A story to tell or a purpose to serve. I want the finished work to connect with people beyond its appearance.
Follow the idea through.
Design and fabrication belong together. I work through the details by hand, bringing artistic vision and practical craft into the same process.
One maker.
A connected practice.
Ron Dyrcz is the artist. Ronders Wood & Metal Works is the studio behind the work—a place for sculpture, custom furniture, wall bars, and fabrication.
They are two expressions of the same practice: turning ideas and materials into objects with purpose.
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