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This web site, featuring Garden Gates, Home Furnishings, and Miscellaneous Art, extends to some 700+ pages and 2,000 images. It is best considered in stages:

Custom Wood Garden Gates: In the early 90's, drawing on a rare combination of skills developed decades earlier through an apprenticeship with his father (a custom homebuilder)--his grandfather (a furnituremaker), and his mother (an artist), Prowell considered the methods required to design and produce Wood Fences and Wood Gates of exterior joinery, exposed to the elements and subject to dimensional changes with the changing seasons. A Garden Gate with the complicated joinery and integrity of his years as a furniture designer/craftsman, combined with the understanding of how wooden structures need to breathe. Those master cabinetmakers and furniture makers with an understanding of the complicated art of joining wood have little experience with releasing their work to the ravages of rain, snow, and freezes. Those journeyman carpenters who commonly work with this in mind, in turn have no understanding of advanced joinery and wood movement.

--There is no hardware in the Wood Gates. There are no screws or nails or metal straps. There is only the joinery, a practiced and long developed eye for design, and a product drawn from countless prototypes that will not sag and will stand proud as a work to be appreciated for decades. Prowell's Custom Garden Gates are commissioned world wide, and every commissions begins here, on this site.

--Concurrently, Prowell's Wood Fence Design establishes the high watermark for this genre. It is a tragedy to find the finely-crafted homes and grounds embellished with the same Wooden Fence Design available to the tract-home developer; this first-impression view of any property relegated to the same inferior woods cobbled into the same wooden fencelines by carpenters and their framing hammers. Once again, Prowell's Garden Fence and Gate Fence designs rely on joinery, the highest grade of clear western cedar, and an eye for design first developed as a young apprentice under his father and grandfather, later as a graduate of Southern Illinois University, studying Architecture, Art, and Design--under Buckminster Fuller--and ultimately from his 27 years in business--designing, developing, and crafting innovative works of art.

Recently, we have brought to fruition our Landscape Lighting Columns after three years of prototypes and testing.  First initiated as Columns to flank the Entry Gate, in lighted or unlighted models, these remarkable products stretch an existing genre toward a series of subsequent offerings looking to upend the long-standing choices for Landscape Lighting. Each of these models desigend with an eye for lighting the landscape with an aesthetic virtually non-existent until now.  The Columns are now available for such uses as along the top of stone and masonry walls; on top of mailbox pillars; path and walk Bollards as well as garden accent lighting functioning as much for their visual architecture as the basic premise of illumination.

A new Postcap arriving in late 2006.  Intended as an alternative to flanking the Garden gates with our above-mentioned Columns, the Caps are two-tiered assemblies for surfaced 6x6 posts.

--Rounding out our Landscape Furnishings section, the methodologies developed for the Custom Wood Garden Gate and Wood Fence Panels were utilized in a series of expanded works such as the Garden Arbor and the Wood Arbor Trellis, offering, again, a benchmark of subtle design and high-end craftsmanship that is currently being stretched into a stand-alone assembly we have called The pavillion, utilizing the Landscape Lighting Columns for one of the most unique designs imaginable. 

Finally, a potpourri of miscellaneous accessories within this family includes the Craftsman Wood Bench, Lawn and Patio Tables, Wood Planter Boxes, Raised Planter Beds, .Wood Mailboxes, etc, etc.

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Within the Home Furnishings and Interiors division-- under the masthead of both Prowell and Lombardi --we find an array of interesting and unique designs representing a level of workmanship from which the Landscape Furishings were born.  It's best to simply browse the galleries and bookmark your favorites with the liesurely approach of a pleasant pasttime.

Under Miscellaneous Constructions, navigated by way of the Site Map only, you will find a veritable medley of works refusing to fit any specific category. Some common, such as the Custom Wood Doors, created for residential entry and more recently, a series of entry doors for St Patrick's Church, in Larkspur, CA. Also, such offerings as Children's Wood Toys--as a purely whimsical pastime--along with a look at re-defining the Craftsman Wood Stair Balustrade and Deck Railing. Under Miscellaneous Singles, distinctive works such as, with Autumn Coast, Prowell's digital art encompassed by unique Wood Picture Frames. Chairs, Wall Sconces, and various undertakings drawn largely from a more light-hearted source of inspiration.

Finally, we have posted a series of magazine and newspaper re-prints, drawn from a wider collection to include those relevant to these pages.

Among the profiles, features, and articles on Wood Gates, Wood Fence Design, Craftsman Designs, Garden Landscape Design, Furniture designs, there appears the occasional prose along with reprinted interviews providing a scope of background data and personal interests.

Charles Prowell Woodworks thanks you for your visit, and for those of you moved to contact us regarding either a commission or to simply make a connection.  Every letter is answered, often by Charles himself.