Founded in 2011 in Charlottesville, Virginia, by blacksmith Corry Blanc, Blanc Creatives creates culinary tools that are as lovely as they are high-performing. Each piece of the company’s cookware, ranging from skillets and sauciers to sauté pans and roasters, are forged in-house and entirely by hand.
Blanc, who grew up in north Georgia, got his start in his grandfather’s welding shop. The true test of his passion came while helping out at his uncle’s welding/fabrication shop after high school. That weekend of work turned into a four-year apprenticeship, with Blanc sweeping the floors, cutting steel, and grinding for hours and hours. After that, he branched out on his own and Blanc Creatives was born.
Today, his shop employs two additional blacksmiths as well as a woodsmith, who creates hand carved serving spoons, spatulas, and charcuterie boards. Blanc and his team share a love of food and cooking, and creating heirloom pieces that will hold up going from stovetop into the oven year after year. “At one point in time, the blacksmith was the center of every town,” Blanc says. “Every pan had to be made by hand.”
The Blanc Creatives entertaining set includes a three steel spreaders, a large forged steel roaster, walnut charcuterie paddle, bottle opener and wood balm at a 15 percent discount to Splinter Creek residents.
