One in Adelphi, Maryland, one in Wildwood, Florida, one at the US National Arboretum with a grandfatherly interest in many more around the DC area (unless noted, pictures are taken the day of post)
Sunday, October 25, 2009
The Chinese Pavilion has these most excellent doors
Okay, the doors on the other end of the Pavilion are just regular painted (badly) steel doors with a Yale lock, but these doors....even if there weren't any trees or any gardens, they'd be worth a trip. They're heavy wood with sold bronze door pulls. They're not symmetrical; the meeting edges are bevelled in parallel so that you must open the right one first. The locking mechanism is the large board with the carved handle that fits into a slot in the top of the jamb and the slot in the paving that you can just see below the point where the two doors meet. I always feel as though I ought to be robed to operate them. It's kind of fun.
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