Precious metals

Firefly was founded in for years designing and building custom frames at Independent Fabrication, but when IF decided to relocate from Boston to New Hampshire, the friends decided their framebuilding fortunes might lie elsewhere.

‘We wanted to stay in Boston, so took the move as an opportunity to build our own framebuilding business from the ground up,’ Wolfson says. ‘We wanted to focus on high-end materials, so we started making stainless steel and titanium frames. Since then we’ve shifted