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The Vigen Gate

A named commission. The design can be built again — under its name.

The Vigen Gate closed across a concrete apron in a stand of pines, its black boarded leaves lifting to a crest either side of the centre joint, the rows of domed studs picked out against the flat plate.

Narrow vertical boards run the full height of both leaves, ranked with domed steel studs along the head and foot of every panel. The top rail lifts in a long S-curve to a crest either side of the centre joint, and a low mid rail divides each leaf into a tall framed panel with a short one beneath. Solid throughout, in black.

The face is broken into narrow boards, and the studs are ranked along every edge those boards run into — head and foot of each panel, top and bottom of each leaf. The topmost rank bends with the arch rather than running level, so the curve of the rail reads as part of the leaf instead of a cap set on top of it.

Buy this one for what it withholds: the leaves are plate the whole way across, so a drive that would otherwise be on view from the street stops at the gate line. That flat face carries colour outright rather than as an accent — black, dark brown and a red-brown coat all appear across these builds — and the boarding and stud ranks redraw without change onto a walk leaf or a narrower square-topped pair.

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Every angle

Both leaves shut between a weathered brick pier and a timber post on a sand drive, the board lines and stud ranks carrying straight across the pair.A single leaf standing on the shop floor beneath a lifting hook, its top rail climbing left to right, the domed studs bright against the dark boarding.A pair of leaves in a red-brown coat hung between new brick piers, a crane boom overhead and a trolley jack standing under the meeting stiles.A narrower square-topped pair in glossy black, deeply ribbed and heavily studded, hung on steel posts in a brick opening with a twisted-bar pull at the meeting stiles.A tall arch-topped single leaf with a lever handle hanging on its post in the foreground, a wide single leaf on trestles behind it, both dark brown with black studs.

Commission a gate

Every new design carries the family name of the customer who dreams it.

If you design a completely custom gate, you can choose to have the finished gate featured in our gallery under your family name.

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