At long last we are making videos for our custom door handles and will be sharing these with you both on our new Video Gallery and on YouTube and DailyMotion.
The first video was shot on location at a private residence and features our Lizard Entry Thumb latch set.
The big advantage to showing our custom hardware in this format is you get to see and understand what we mean by “functional art”. The lizard sculpture acts as a large bronze door pull and you grip the body of the lizard to open the door or in this case front gate. Above the lizard there is a sculpted bronze back-plate reminiscent of stone, on which a butterfly is perched. The butterfly is also a functioning thumb latch and when depressed it opens the gate by releasing the mortise lock. On the reverse side or inside of the gate we used a smaller lizard sculpture to act as the door lever and to continue the natural theme mounted the lever on a bronze back-plate styled to resemble tree bark. Lizard food, in this case a small beetle, is used as a whimsical bronze turn piece that functions to either open or close the deadbolt.
As the lizards have been made as lefts and rights they will also will work well on door double doors or gates.
In this particular project we created custom grills at the top of the gate in the form of flax stems and appropriately added a left and right bronze frog to complete the entrance. As Martin Pierce is also a wood carver he carved a wooden raven head to house the chain for the house bell.
While I hope you find this description clear I hope you will agree that the video does a better job of capturing the three dimensional reality of this set.
While videos are fun to watch they can be difficult to make so our thanks go to Jeff Jenkins whose patience as director and skill as a videographer made this project a success. Jeff’s work can be seen at;