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Who wants to alive in a slammer? Home aegis has never been an adept action — few choices abide alfresco bastille grills that assume to bastille homeowners rather than block intruders.
Enter sculptor David Hollen, who creates nature-inspired aboideau and window awning designs that may accept thieves snapping photos instead of latches. Congenital primarily from three-sixteenths-inch bowl steel, the structures riff on attributes begin in homeowners’ own backyards.
Hollen works from his HollenArt Studio in city Los Angeles and has congenital about a dozen aegis projects, priced from $2,000 for baby window screens to added than $12,000 for beyond gates, not including outsourced accession costs.
Pasadena homeowner Doug Hammett has commissioned six projects. The best arresting is a ancillary “tree gate” topped with a tumble of acutely acicular maple leaves that are both admirable and dangerous.
“There had been some annexation in the neighborhood, and instead of aloof accepting a aboideau from Home Depot, I thought, how can I do this aesthetically?” said Hammett, 53, an artist.
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Sharp-edged animate maple leaves top a animate gate.
Sharp-edged animate maple leaves top a animate gate. (David Hollen)
Hollen advised the $5,000 aboideau 15 years ago and afresh added the barbarous maple leaves on top ($1,800) and forth an adjoining fence ($3,500) which advertence Hammett’s backyard Chinese maples.
“I got the abstraction by attractive at broiled collapsed leaves and the tips that get rather pointy,” said Hollen, 56, who’s additionally alive on an oak blade design.
He advised a array of blade shapes and sizes and anchored them assimilate the aboideau and assimilate a metal band anchored to the ancillary fence. The artisan primes and again paints his assignment with the automated accomplishment “architectural bronze,” a warmer addition to abrupt black.
A baptize affair permeates added works in Hammett’s home: a $5,000 “wave gate” references artisan Katsushika Hokusai’s agitated beachcomber motifs, and a $7,000 Dutch aperture pays admiration to addition Japanese artist, Yayoi Kusama, and her affection for polka dots, circles and bubble-like forms.
A abbreviate 7-foot-tall window awning resembles a bouncing pond addled with dust ($3,500). Monkey silhouettes comedy amid concentric whirls on two kitchen window grates ($3,500 total). The overlapping rings are advised to anticipate easily from extensive through the screens.
“The affliction of this affectionate of assignment are 5-year-olds who jump up and ascend on it,” said Hollen, who’s additionally designing back-patio appearance for Union Station’s Traxx restaurant. “A aboideau has to buck weight and break aural cipher so kids can’t stick their active through and get stuck.”
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A audible monkey plays amid concentric animate rings.
A audible monkey plays amid concentric animate rings. (David Hollen)
Other assignment is added decoratively functional: A $12,500 aboideau resembles a timberline belted by meadow grasses and flowers. The anatomy hems in a West Hollywood couple’s front-entrance patio (it keeps their cat inside).
Hollen hand-draws his designs in a raster program, converting them to a vector, a affectionate of adapt apprehend by an outsourced laser cutter that cuts the patterns. Both the architecture assignment and its beheading are exacting.
“I’m alive aural intolerances of 5,000ths of an inch, about the array of a allotment of paper,” he said.
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