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Michael Chiarello, founder of Mac Metalworks. (Photo credit: Doug Young)
Michael Chiarello, founder of MAC Metalworks, brings beauty to the otherwise brawn craft of reshaping metals in order to create useful objects, parts, assemblies, and large scale structures.
“We’re being hired to build things that people want to see. So, this isn’t just a piece that is strictly for functionality, like a fire escape,” says Chiarello one afternoon, sitting behind his desk, his white-and-black rescue, Cookie, nuzzling his hand. “If the welds look bad or the paint doesn’t look great, a fire escape is still gonna save somebody, but the thing won’t look like a piece of jewelry or a piece of art when you’re done, right? I push that.”
Emily Toy is a lifestyle reporter for southforker. A Sag Harbor native and enthusiast for all-things East End, she earned her journalism degree from Buffalo State College and worked as both a freelance and staff reporter for several local publications, most notably The Independent. She’s also had an extensive career as both a bartender and waitress, having survived working at a plethora of establishments across her beloved Hamptons home for over 20 years. Through these two mediums, she’s been able to connect to and serve the people of the East End, no pun intended of course.
