| Philip Simmons | |
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| Born | June 9, 1912  Charleston, South Carolina |
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| Occupation | Artisan |
Philip Simmons, b. Events 53 - Roman Emperor Nero marries Claudia Octavia 62 - Claudia Octavia commits Year 1912 ( MCMXII) was a Leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Leap year starting Charleston is a city in Charleston county in the US state of South Carolina. June 9, 1912 is an artisan of Charleston, South Carolina who has specialized in ornamental iron since 1938. Events 53 - Roman Emperor Nero marries Claudia Octavia 62 - Claudia Octavia commits Year 1912 ( MCMXII) was a Leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Leap year starting An artisan, also called a Craftsman, is a skilled manual worker who crafts items that may be functional or strictly decorative including furniture clothing Charleston is a city in Charleston county in the US state of South Carolina. Iron (ˈаɪɚn is a Chemical element with the symbol Fe (ferrum and Atomic number 26 Year 1938 ( MCMXXXVIII) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. After an apprenticeship with Peter Simmons, a blacksmith on Calhoun Street, he has had a long career, fashioning more than five hundred decorative pieces of ornamental wrought iron: gates, fences, balconies, and window grills. Apprenticeship is a system of Training a new generation of practitioners of a skill blacksmith is a person who creates objects from Iron or Steel by Forging the Metal; i This is a partial list of places named for American statesman John C QtubIronPillarJPG|thumb|right| Iron pillar at Delhi India containing 98% wrought iron]] Wrought iron is commercially pure Iron. A gate is a point of entry to a space enclosed by Walls or an opening in a Fence. A fence is a freestanding structure designed to restrict or prevent movement across a boundary Balcony (from Italian balcone, scaffold cf High German balcho, beam balk probably cognate with Persian term بالكانه Many of the works are on historical properties. He has apprenticed many younger artisans and the Philip Simmons Artist-Blacksmith Guild of South Carolina is named in his honor.
Awards
- 1982, the National Endowment for the Arts, National Heritage Fellowship, the highest honor that the United States can bestow on a traditional artist.
- 1982, Lifetime Achievement Award, South Carolina state legislature for "lifetime achievement" and commissions for public sculptures by the South Carolina State Museum and the city of Charleston
- 1994, South Carolina Hall of Fame, Myrtle Beach, South Carolina
- 1998, Order of the Palmetto, the highest civilian award given in South Carolina, by Governor David Beasley
- 2001, Elizabeth O'Neill Verner Governor's Award for "Lifetime Achievement in the Arts. South Carolina ( is a state in the southern region ( Deep South) of the United States of America. A legislature is a type of representative Deliberative assembly with the power to create amend and change Laws The law created by a legislature is called Legislation The South Carolina State Museum, located in Columbia South Carolina, is the largest Museum in the Southeastern United States. A governor is a governing official usually the executive (at least nominally to different degrees also politically and administratively of a non-sovereign level of government David Muldrow Beasley (born February 26 1957) is a Republican who served one term as the Governor of South Carolina from 1995 until 1999 Elizabeth O'Neill Verner (1883 - 1979 was an artist author and lecturer from Charleston South Carolina. "
Works
- Much of the ironwork in the Historic District of Charleston
- Richland County Public Library, Columbia, South Carolina
- Daniel Island Company, Daniel Island, South Carolina
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