CPW's
Architectural Wood Columns as both Gate Post Wraps & Low
Voltage Landscape Lighting Bollards.
The
history of our Wood Columns goes back several years. Originating as a need
to provide a more presentable feature for those Driveway Gates utilizing
steel posts, we developed a Post Wrap, based upon the same principles of
wood expansion and joined stiles- and-rails as the gates themselves. Understanding
that the common Gate Wraps will almost always result in checking, cupping,
and certainly the joints of four sides themselves seeing some separation,
the first generation on the CPW Outdoor Column was born, alleviating all
these issues within the existing genre.
In time, there were amendments to accommodate Low Voltage Landscape Lighting that might be considered a form of Bollard Lighting, adding a series of design layouts with the various picket patterns to provide grids, as well a solid panel field.
At
some juncture we expanded from the premise of an Exterior Column that flanks
the Gate to create a combination
Exterior Light that also serves as Garden Art. A free-standing Garden Column
featuring open grids on all four sides, providing 360-degrees of soft illumination:
A
Garden Bollard Light with the signatory CPW feature of an Architectural aesthetic.
Because
our products tend to subject themselves to a never-ending course of modified
designs and multiple uses, we turned at some juncture to refining the column
caps as a single tier offering with a series of weep holes allowing light to be thrown onto the
underside eaves of the upper tier for an appealing, somewht startling affect
when viewed in total darkness.
Expanding
on this principal design, we began work on a series
of much larger Wood Columns. Extending to four-ft square by ten-ft height,
and deemed more as an Architectural Tower.
Work
continues, as we write, on a Clock Tower with
Exterior Lighting, drawn largely from the principles above.
We hope you enjoy the gallery and
return from time to time for the omnipresent changes and improvements to this
product line that will eventually play a large part in the free-standing assemblies
and structures still on the drawing board and as yet to reach the actual prototype
stage.
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