The Mayeaux Gate

A one-off commission for the Mayeaux family, which is how it got its name. The design can be built again — under its name.

A double-leaf driveway gate in a dark bronze-black finish, with a low S-curve top rail, diamond studs set into the solid top and bottom rails, and turned balusters between. Installed flush into a wood privacy fence line.

The Mayeaux Gate is the quietest of the named designs — a shallower curve and a plainer stud pattern than the Ham or Disotell gates, which lets it sit into an existing wood fence line without competing with it.

Because it reads as part of the fence rather than an ornament bolted onto it, this is the style to point a buyer at when they want privacy and a finished entrance without a statement piece.

8 photos

Every angle

The Mayeaux Gate from further down the drive, showing how it sits into the run of wood privacy fence.

Both leaves standing loose in the gravel yard outside the workshop, resting on lengths of pipe, with the studded S-curve rails and turned balusters close to the camera.

Both leaves standing upright and angled apart on the gravel outside the tan metal workshop, with a farm field and the open barn door behind them.

A single leaf standing inside the shop under the hoist chain, its studded top rail, turned balusters and studded bottom panel all in bare steel.

The Mayeaux Gate hung on square posts at the head of a new concrete apron, seen from the side of the drive with fresh earth banked either side and a red barn among bare trees behind.

Both leaves standing on stands in the shop yard, still in bare grey steel, the S-curve rails and rows of diamond studs bright in the sun outside a tan metal workshop.

The Mayeaux Gate closed square-on between posts at the edge of a pine stand, its black leaves showing the S-curve top rail, turned balusters and studded bottom panel.

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