The Virginia Farm Gate
A named commission. The design can be built again — under its name.
Four broad flat rails to a leaf, evenly spaced and level, with a pair of long parallel diagonal braces to a leaf, both falling toward the centre joint and mirrored either side of it. Wide flat plates form the outer stiles; the two stiles that meet at the centre finish just above the top rail with a rounded cap. A warm brown finish that goes coppery on the sunlit faces, hung square across a paved drive.
The whole design is in the bracing. Four rails and a pair of parallel diagonals is farm-gate logic worked in heavy steel instead of timber, and because the braces are mirrored either side of the centre their low ends arrive together at the bottom of the joint, so the closed pair reads as one figure rather than two panels pushed against each other.
Where The Mayeaux was built to sit into a wood fence line, this one has nothing to sit into and does not pretend otherwise: rails and a brace leave most of the opening as daylight, so the drive and the ground behind it stay in view. It suits acreage, a pasture entrance, or a long low frontage where a tall ornamental gate would read as borrowed from another property.
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