Matt Wallace sits at an anvil ("incudine" in Italian) behind the hand-wrought doors of Pierluigi Prata's shop in Bologna, Italy. Prata works behind him.

Matt Wallace, a Charleston blacksmith, holds a hinge created decades ago by an Italian blacksmith and a similar hinge that Wallace created.

Italian master blacksmith Pierluigi Prata taught Matt Wallace of Charleston the art of repousse.

Using old tools, Matt Wallace grinds an intricate piece of metalwork under the tutelage of an Italian master blacksmith.