The Grand Lattice Gate
A named commission. The design can be built again — under its name.
A tall double-leaf drive gate built around a dense diagonal lattice of flat bar, set over a solid plate base with raised panel detail and swept up to a shallow arc across the top rail. Finished black.
The lattice is the whole build. Every diamond is an intersection of flat bar that has to be cut, laid out and welded on both faces, and the grid has to stay true across the full width or the eye catches it immediately — which is why this design costs what it does relative to a picket gate of the same size.
The shop photograph is worth keeping for what it shows: a single leaf slung from the hoist and squared up on stands in bare steel, with no paint on it yet to hide a joint. The other two frames are the finished pair, hung and painted black at the house.
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