Chris Topp is the latest member of INTBAU

The INTBAU College of Traditional Practitioners is an elite international professional body for practitioners in traditional urban design, architecture and the building arts who have a sustained output of traditional work.

Membership is limited to practitioners of the highest standard in the academic, professional, artistic, trade, craft and practical activities concerned with building, architecture and urbanism that support the objectives of INTBAU.

It’s a great privilege to be invited to join this association and it’s an honour for Chris and for Topp & Co, we believe Chris is the first blacksmith to have been accepted into this organisation.

Chris has spent a lifetime in the quest for higher standards across the historic ironwork sector, through his company and also through the National Heritage Ironwork Group of which he is a founder member. This crusade has been inspired by his desire to sustain the work of the blacksmith – mainly because it’s so much fun to do!