How We Got Here
It wasn't some grand plan, honestly. Back in 2011, Marcus Quint and I were sitting in this half-demolished warehouse in East Van, sketching on the back of permit papers, trying to convince a developer that tearing down a 1920s steel-frame building was basically a crime.
We lost that pitch, by the way. The building came down. But something clicked for us that day - there's gotta be a better way to handle these old industrial bones. Vancouver's changing fast, yeah, but we kept seeing these beautiful steel structures getting scraped when they could've been the foundation for something incredible.
So we started Celtharion Forge Quint with a simple idea: what if we treated old industrial architecture like the resource it actually is? Steel doesn't lie, doesn't pretend to be something it's not. That honesty became our whole approach - respecting what came before while pushing forward with contemporary design that actually makes sense.
