Macek Furniture

Griffin Doors

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Live oak, post oak, and quartz stone from clients' land
dimensions 8'-0"h x 5'-0"w

made for Griffin Davis and Heather Keating

May 2009

These doors required a technical feat.  Griffin and Heather were building the house of their dreams.  They wanted their new doors to contain lumber from fallen trees on their land.  That was not difficult.  Texas Kiln Products provided the milling and kiln-drying.  Live oak lumber is gorgeous and exotically figured.  However, it is notoriously unstable.  It won't stay flat, which is not good for doors.  I milled the live oak to 1/4" thickness and glued it to a marine-grade substrate, first covering the egdes of the plywood with live oak nosing.  The doors look like solid lumber, but are shop-built composites that stay very flat indeed.

Griffin and Heather also found large quartz rocks on the property.  I located a lapidary who sliced the stones to 3/8" thick and polished the surfaces. 

I designed the doors with a woven pattern of structural rails.  Light passes through the glass and quartz panels.  Visitors can be seen from afar, descending the hill to the entry way.

 

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