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DESIGNER GARDEN GATES #201
As a single gate up to 48' width x 6' ht: $3,750

Furthering a passing fascination with translucent acrylic rod and the arc of a rising or setting sun. A confluence of wood, tinted epoxy, acrylic rod, and teak grids make for a Garden Gate that's all about form.

Garden Gate #201 was designed to compliment a post modern style architecure.

The small translucent acrylid squares mortised into the teak gridwork. All but invisible until back-lit by the sunlight.

We also get a closer look at a technique developed for this Wooden Gate that illustrates a series of inlays filled with a tinted epoxy.

The assembly line.

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DESIGNER GARDEN GATES #201 As a single gate up to 48' width x 6' ht: $3,750

Furthering a passing fascination with translucent acrylic rod and the arc of a rising or setting sun. A confluence of wood, tinted epoxy, acrylic rod, and teak grids make for a Garden Gate that's all about form.

Garden Gate #201 was designed to compliment a post modern style architecure.

Below, testing this premise of diffused light within the Wooden Gate, we travel to a nearby coastal ridge in western Sonoma, facing the setting sun.

As we sit, reading our books and sipping ice tea, waiting . . . and suddenly the rods on left side of the gate explode as the sun arrives at it's prescribed angle. Prowell jumps up and down, singing and dancing like an idiot.

Ten minutes later and the second sequence of rods react, which in turn ignites further dancing and perhaps a handstand.

And then the third.

And finally the last and with this, the smuggness that arrives with any design born from the intuitive guess-work of a conceptual idea existing only within the head of a man with far too much time on his hands.

The small translucent acrylid squares mortised into the teak gridwork. All but invisible until back-lit by the sunlight.

We also get a closer look at a technique developed for this Wooden Gate that illustrates a series of inlays filled with a tinted epoxy.

People love to ask, Gawd, how long did it take? But what they don't understand is that time has absolutely nothiung to do with it.

Do they think we have clocks, timing our billable hours on those Garden Gates such as these, while monitoring our profit-loss margins? Fer goodness sakes.

The assembly line.

DESIGNER GARDEN GATES #201
As a single gate up to 48' width x 6' ht: $3,750