A double-leaf driveway gate in gloss black, arched across the top and solid below. Turned balusters fill the upper half between studded rails, while the lower panel is close-boarded steel — so the gate screens the drive without closing the entrance in.
The Ella Grace Gates are built in two halves and read as two halves: open balusters above eye level, a close-boarded panel below it. That split is doing real work — it stops headlights and dogs at the road while keeping the sky and the treeline visible from the house.
The square pyramid studs set along the rails are the detail that carries the design. The studded bands run at the same height on both leaves, so the line carries across the joint even though the spacing restarts at the meeting stiles, and each leaf still resolves on its own when they swing open. The design also takes a colour: the photographs here show it in gloss black, in dark grey, and in bronze-brown with near-black bands.
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