Samuel Yellin

Samuel Yellin (1884–1940) was an American master blacksmith and metal designer.

Samuel Yellin was born to a Jewish family in Mohyliv-Podilskyi, Ukraine in the Russian Empire in 1884.

During the building boom of the 1920s, Samuel Yellin Metalworkers employed as many as 250 workers, many of them European artisans.

Samuel Yellin's works can be found in some of the finest buildings in America.

Yellin received awards from the Art Institute of Chicago (1919), the American Institute of Architects (1920), the Architectural League of New York (1922), and the Bok Civic Award from the City of Philadelphia (1925).

A Samuel Yellin lamp at the Cathedral of Learning in Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania
Yellin Studio in 1915
1922 advertisement.
Detail of stair railing (1924), Dumbarton Oaks in Washington, D.C. , including Yellin's name and year
Spider screen from the Country Estate of Mrs. Arthur Meigs [ 5 ]