Knife making as a life project
The craft of designer bladesmith is the first child of the marriage of some of the pillars that define Telmo Roque.
With roots in the interior of Portugal where the forest kisses the Zêzere, driven by the urgent need to manage and value forest and agricultural resources in the family for generations, all the wood used in the product comes from management and maintenance work, adding value to them.
An example of this is the use in a high-quality context of apparently little valuable materials such as heather, broom or arbutus, as far as the forest is concerned, or olive, holm oak or lemon wood, on the agricultural side of the spectrum.
Because curiosity and always learning more is one of the most solid foundations of any structure, cutlery is the element that unifies the path of teaching and life, without waste.
Since childhood and youth, always involved in rural and bush life, combined with technical drawing, design and construction qualifications and kitchen experience around the world, everything finds a common thread in knives and forged metal, in the tool as an extension of the subject and work.
It is,simply put, love on knives.
