CUSTOM WOOD GARDEN GATE #23

This Garden Gate is Base Price + 21%
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The colonial garden gate with the Williamsburg Weave and Cresting Arch. A pattern–less the cresting arch– showing up first in the drawings Thomas Jefferson designed for one of 20 colonial garden gates in Charlottesville, VA–on the campus of his University of Virginia.

Rocky Mountain gate Latch E414 in dark bronze

Palo Alto, CA

A Double Colonial Garden Gate #23-5 in Palo Alto, CA.
Shown with matching colonial Fence style #23

The photograph invites us into believing our patron, Dolores, has just returned from the local market, wheeling her bike through the garden gates and onto the new patio where she pauses to unlace her bonnet and from the basket grabs her fresh beans and rhubarb, slipping into the kitchen whistling something or another, her mind occupied by dinner, by what she can work up with a little of this n’ that as the neighbors begin wandering toward that patio, nonchalantly, lead by the anticipation of something doing in the kitchen and by the idea of another evening on the patio and an hour of conversation relished with the pace of molasses and how it shows that sometimes the smallest strides end up bringing the greatest pleasures. A new patio, born from a few bricks and some mortar and a string of lights and a gate with its sisterly fence that, given the social graces of Dolores, the hostess, seems hardly worthy. And yet proud to be a part of the leisure known to this home.

Palo Alto, CA

The double Wood Gates as seen upon approach to the new patio.

La Jolla, CA

Our Double Wood Entry Gates #23 within a stucco wall of 54″ height.

Meanwhile…
Fresh from the Big House, Jocko resorts to old habits.
But Gigi appears unimpressed by the scent of his gun . . .
Crudely carved, as you may have guessed, from a bar of prison-made soap.

La Jolla, CA

Approaching from the street.

Shown with Rocky Mountain Latch E414.

La Jolla, CA

A short respite to reiterate the importance of sanctioning a portion of every day toward the pursuit of excellence. In whatever medium suits us, this striving for perfection and rhythm pays untold benefits on a multitude of levels. And it would appear that our patron, a landscape painter, has found a means of capturing, and holding, our attention. Photographed from her easel on the back porch. Her mastery is obvious here in her texturing of the trees and the ridges.

Hillsborough, CA

Double Gates #23 along the peninsula south of San Francisco

A painted finish, applied on site. Finishes should allow the cedar to be fully exposed to the elements for 2-3 weeks prior to painting.

We’ve essentially doubled the weave pattern with two sections separated by a center divide. This a Base Price + 40%.

The Colonial Weave can vary within the given widths. By introducing a vertical divider, and lowering or raising the middle rail, the angle of the Weave changes accordingly, affecting the proportionate look of the Gate Design.

Every commission receives dimensioned drawings prior to any work beginning–in part this is to provide you with a proportionate display of how certain patterns can vary with different widths and heights.

Fence Style #23 as a typical accompaniment to Prowell’ Colonial Gate style #23

Similar to #23-1 wth the center divider and double patterns, Colonial Gate style #23-8 features a simple radius as the top arch.

San Jose, CA

Marin County, CA

As double gates in Marin County, California showing the wider widths altering the proportions of the pattern. Colonial Gate #23 is available with or without the lower open slots.

Showing Rocky Mountain Gate Latch E701. The one of the right is operable. The one on the left is a dummy

Ross, CA

Prowell’s original Colonial Garden Gate #23 (circa 1995), in Marin County, CA

Farmville, VA

Garden Gate #23-4 in Virginia

At first glance, it might seem that the gate is disproportionately shorter than the flanking fence. And yet if you imagine the gates at the same 9′ height, the assembly becomes an overwhelming fortress.

PROGRESS
How do I build a wood gate?

Circa 2013

Ben shown dry-fitting the pattern to a typical #23.

Below, in 2003.

1998

Charles experimenting with the original pattern. As with so many of the designs, it begins as a speculative venture, which may or may not resonate with the needs or appeals of a supportive public.

2019

The layout for the #23-8 with two upper patterns..

2019

It helps to label each member of the pattern.

2019

The labeling prior to glue-up.