Although these forged steel driveway gates
have a modern and contemporary design, they were made using traditional
blacksmithing techniques.
The wide steel bars give an initial impression of wooden gates
but, on closer inspection, the detailing reveals that the gates could only have been made using
metal.
The "gaps" in the gates were not simply cut out.
Instead, the steel was hammered to shape whilst hot in order move metal to one
side, to create the attractive swellings around the gaps. The gates were not welded, instead all the joinery
was made using
rivets in
hot punched holes, adding to the rich detailing seen throughout the gates.
A similar garden gate can be seen in
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