Wood
Arbors of Fine Workmanship
The wood arbors presented on the following pages will appear as a departure
from the
more common structures most of us associate with landscape assemblies.
The difference,
of course, is in the joinery. You will not find layers and levels
stacked upon one another,
fixed in placed with an assortment of screws and nails and bolts.
On first sighting, there may be a recognition of something less cluttered,
less convoluted,
without the muscle and mass of those lego-like arbors that manage to
upstage a lovely
garden like engineer boots on a dance floor.
In reality, there should be no single feature of a home's architecture
or landscape that
overwhelms or upstages the whole. Designing a residence or a landscape
is a team effort,
in that it's varying componants belong as if pieces to a coherant puzzle.
Of course there is a tendancy,
a matter of human behavior, to find an artist or tradesman
wanting to stand above the frey. Creating works that are out of
sync with their surroundings
in an effort to be noticed.
If we consider art and design on
this premise, we quickly separate those works that are in
fact stand-alone creations, such as paintings, fashion apparel, even
automobile designs. These
all are judged on the merits of themselves alone, having no relation
to anything but their own
existence. We cannot say that Joyce's Finnegan's Wake upstages
itself, because it IS itself.
But if we were to implant a chapter of this phonetic-like prose from
this virtually unreadable
novel and insert it into one of his earlier, more readable works, and
suddenly it rises like a
beacon on a calm sea.
The landscape and architecture of a residential property exist as a
team. They are as linked to
one another as the background and foreground of an painted canvass.
And nowhere is more
restraint needed than with the first impressionable sighting of the
fence, the gate, the arbor.
All the effort and expense invested into the home itself and the success
or failure of this investment
rests, on first impressions, with the merits of these front-and-center
assemblies.
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*** Each gate
/ fence / arbor commission, upon receipt of advance payment, is set
up with a
tail-site to prowellwoodworks.com. As an effort to simplify our communications,
the site
will feature the project's dimensioned drawings; statements and invoices;
site photos, if
available; completion photos; and whatever optional considerations that
might arise.
Beyond the obvious advantages of dismissing the need for faxes and mail,
the site allows
us to speak on the phone while viewing at once the common data online.
We retain the right to use site
images and installations to promote our business, but do not
divulge any personal information regarding a client other than these
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