The Studio yearbook of decorative art (1906)

Garden Furniture

character, there is no doubt that metal gates have
an air of greater dignity and importance, and
that they are, in fact, altogether more appropriate
adjuncts to walls of dressed stone, with high
gate-pieces surmounted by stone vases or armorial
devices. The wicket-gate (p. 247) and two pairs
of gates for carriage entrances (both on p. 249),
executed for Viscount Downe at Wykeham Hall,
Yorks, were designed by Mr. A. Harold Smith on
the lines of eighteenth-century work. The whole
is in forged iron, with the exception of the foliage
details, which, on account of the proximity of the
sea, it was thought advisable to carry out in copper,
as being more proof than iron against the action
of the salt in the atmosphere. Of the two pairs of
wfought-iron gates, designed by Mr. E. S. Elgood,
one (below) is, again, based on eighteenth-century
models, while the other (p. 247) has a more de-
cidedly mcdern appearance.

Wooden gates, being of a more unpretending
nature than iron, are suitable for placing in walls
. of rough stone, as shown, for instance, in the view
of Mr. Mawson's work (p. 250), or in brick walls
or wooden palisades and fences. The hollowed
and barred^curve in the upper part of these gates
is designed to allow a glimpse of the country
beyond to be obtained from within. When, how-
ever, the object is to ensure the utmost amount of
To gates, then, first of all should attention be privacy, solid doors or gates, being either in a substan-
directed. tial framing, as in the case of Mr. Mawson's oak door

Although wooden gates have a more homely (opposite), or between wooden posts, as in the same

OAK DOOR DESIGNED BY THOS. H. MAWSON,

HON. A.R.I.B.A.

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WROUGHT IRON GATES DESIGNED BY E. S. ELGfOD

EXECUTED BY ELGOOD & BROWN

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