Close up of unnamed house gates

Adrian Wood - Wednesday, May 14, 2008 - 11:20pm

Beautiful, clean design, and

QuiQue - Thursday, May 15, 2008 - 4:23am

Beautiful, clean design, and great artistry! I like the curvilinear/contemporary design with the traditional joinery. Looks great with the traditional stonework.

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Wow, that looks really nice.

Gerald Boggs - Thursday, May 15, 2008 - 7:54am

Wow, that looks really nice. The flowing lines blending with the circles is very easy on the eyes. However, I'm not sure I like the large thick ring on the bottom. The sharp taper keeps it from flowing as well as the rest.

As almost all my learning has come from British smiths, I enjoy seeing that flavor of joinery.
If you have the time, (you may notice I ask this a lot) could you post some close-ups of the hinges and the joinery.

Gerald Boggs

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Thank you all for the great comments

Adrian Wood - Thursday, May 15, 2008 - 2:36pm

Thanks for all your great comments.
Gerald i will post some pictures of the hinges and jointing for you when i get chance. The thick ring at the bottom of the gate is a large dali-esque pencil! The theme of the railings was a childlike playful one. You may notice that there are much larger pencils on the railings. The whole idea was that everything was rolling down the steep hill, things appear to be falling from a satchel or school bag and rolling down the wall along with books pencils an umbrella, Childrens hoops, catapults, spinning tops and whips and soccer balls. I wanted the gates to appear fuller and heavier on the left hand gate as though everything had rolled up against the wall of the house. It has been a project that was huge fun to make and also to design, i was given free rein. One of my nicest commissions so far. The client has more work for me to start soon. so i will be keeping busy for a few more months!
Adrian

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