Signature Arbors for the Gate and Garden

The Gate Arbors presented on the following pages will appear as a departure from the more common structures most of you associate with the common Garden Arbor. You will not find layers and levels stacked upon one another, or grids and lattices laid over one another. You will not find an assortment of screws or nails or metal fasteners. What you will experience is an assembly of subtle clean lines secured with a complexity of joinery that will last a lifetime.

On first sighting, the CPW Arbor Design may trigger a recognition of something less cluttered, less convoluted, without the muscle and mass of the 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. The Gate Arbor may be mark the initial impression, often appointed front and center, it nevertheless must compliment its supporting cast.

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 Garden Arbor upon approach. 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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*** Our Wood Arbor assemblies are often commissioned along with our signature gates in a matching complimentary design. The Cedar Wood Arbors arrive as full assemblies designed to mount to gate posts or wall-tops.