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A Lost Art – Fences
Back in the day some readers got frustrated with me for posting fences. They didn’t think they were worth the space. I couldn’t disagree more. This is a lost freaking art. These fences are beautiful. That’s all I have to say about that.
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Totally with you on this – beauty in ordinary things is a tragically lost idea.
Is there really no place to get these anymore? I’d like to get some nice iron fencing for my place.
Good morning, Enos.
Good examples of fine ornamental wrought ironwork can be found all around Washington and are certainly well worthy of posts here.
It is indeed a lost art as there are so few today willing to underwrite the high cost of today’s new production/labor of the same or even the maintenance and repair of old existing ornamental wrought ironwork.
Lifelong Washingtonian and welder Paul Ponzelli of Suburban Welding has been doing work on my properties since the 1980′s.
He knows his trade well, can well distinguish old Washington ironwork and even tell you the different foundries where they came from.
Paul has a well equipped mobile heavy equipment welding truck to do on-site work in the city. His forge and weld shop is now in Alexandria:
http://www.intowner.com/2010/02/18/when-does-my-cast-iron-staircase-need-attention-always/
http://suburbanweldingcompany.com/
http://www.buildingconservation.com/articles/wroughtiron/wrought2000.htm
Northeast Ironworks! I have the same pattern on my window guard.
Try Kenneth Green at 301-449-6077. He did my yard and was quick, courteous, and less than half the price long fence quoted me at. He was also able to match the design I had on my porch no problem.
I’m with PoP. And besides, it’s your blog, you can post what you like!
Totally with you, as well. I rent in the basement of a gorgeous Mt. P rowhouse, but the chain link fence around the small yards all but ruin it!
I’m with you on this, PoP. Keep the fences coming!
Love this feature! I continue to be enamored of nice fences (the one on 13th across from Tubman school which you’ve featured before is a fave).
In that middle photo, are some of the points missing off the top of the fence, or am I just not seeing them? Otherwise, this is gorgeous.
There’s certainly something Franco-Oriental going on in that pattern, I suspect.
Yes, the iron fences are magnificent. Anything to turn the tide against the ickiness of chain-link, so pathetically gross.
At first look, I thought this post was titled “A lost art- feces” – I need more caffeine.
Truly beautiful freaking art. I love building elements that have so much pizazz!
In the overly-litigious society we live in today, I’m surprised that those metal spikes are allowed on fences at all anymore. I can just picture a bunch of teenagers horsing around while walking down the sidewalk, when one of them gets shoved toward one of those fences, and ends up bleeding to death after being impaled.
I had a friend do a backwards header off some front steps (he was drunk and the enclosure around the front porch was low) and MAN was he glad he did not land on the fence. It looked kinda like this but with more spikes.