Designs Elements, a series of postings of elements from my garden design projects. Each setting, view, or piece, was designed by me specifically for one of my projects.
Contemporary Sculpture Balls and Sculpture Garden
Design element 1
Sculpture balls. These were constructed using fake grass ball by Boule Gazon and mounted on top of stainless steel rods secured in place via concrete set steel tube. Each ball is also up-light spike spot and run on both sides of a stainless steel waterway creating dramatic effect whether day or night. The award winning gardens were created for a private client in Cheshire North West UK.
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| Sculpture balls design by David Keegan |
Contemporary Oak Pergola
Design element 2
I designed this pergola as i could not find anything readily available that fitted my vision for this area of the project. The side vertical panels create a sense of enclosure and privacy when viewed from the side but also frame the view from across the gardens. Untreated copper tubing is used fro cross lats in place of timber
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| Oak and copper pergola designed by David Keegan |
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Side detail Oak Pergola designed by David Keegan
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Contemporary Electric Powder Coated Gates
Design element 3
I designer these gates specifically for this project as i could not find anything ready made that suited either the brief or the aesthetic i as aiming to achieve.
Bespoke Oak Gate
Design element 4
I designed the Oak gates below to fit into an existing oak arch/pergola. The gates lead from a small inner formal lawn area to the orchard and and the small arboretum beyond. The gates were made and fitted by a local Cheshire based joiner. Constructed in green Oak they will silver down twist and turn a time passes very much the desired effect and aesthetic for this large project in Mobberley.
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| Bespoke Oak Gates designed by David Keegan |
Bespoke Green Oak Fence and Bee Sculpture
Design element 5
Green oak fence designed by me for the same project as gates above, this is a handmade green oak fence. Each paling is cut to an irregular pattern and peg jointed to cross rail. This fence forms the backdrop to the arboretum.
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| Bespoke green Oak fence designed by David Keegan |
The bee hovering over copper and steel flower set into stone monolith creates a focal point to end of path and gate beyond leading on into the filed and landscape beyond. The sculpture specially commissioned for the project is the result of a collaboration with David Freedman.
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| Bespoke green Oak fence, gate, designed by David Keegan Sculpture bee landing on copper flower by David Freedman in collaboration with David Keegan |
Alison Crowther Oak Sculpture Seat
Design element 6
i purchased this Oak sculpture seat on behalf of my client to go into a woodland bog garden. The wood is untreated and deliberately allowed to age crack and weather as it will leading to a stone like patina. The seat is carved from a single piece of English oak harvested from weather fallen trees and to that end is sustainable.
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| Oak Sculpture seat designed and made by English sculptor Alison Crowther |
Welsh Slate and Oak grotto seat
Design element 7
I designed this grotto seat to create a focal point across a garden and a quite place to sit and read a book. It was hand made using small pieces of Welsh slate and English oak and had to be made in place due to the intricate nature of the curve and detail.
Curved reclaimed brick and rendered sculpture walls
Design element 8
I designed these curved walls to act as dual purpose spaces in a small community garden. The outer curved wall create intimate enclosed meeting resting places with the base of opening acting as seats but also used at time as display points for pieces of sculpture and artworks made by members of the community center groups. The curved wall were constructed using reclaimed brick with the insets rendered and sides of opening clad in rusted steel for contrast.
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| Rendered Raspberry pink walls with inset steel designed by David Keegan |
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| View through the 3 curved walls |
An added bonus the opening also create framed views of the gardens when viewed from different points.
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| Openings frame views of garden and planting beyond in this case the giant leaves of Gunnera |
Oak Larch and Welsh Slate summer house
Design element 9
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| Summerhouse designed by David Keegan for a sun terrace |
Cedar, reclaimed brick and York stone built pergola
Design element 10
Designs for pergola and gardens inspired by Gertrude Jekyll
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| Pergola designed by David Keegan |
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| Pergola by David Keegan |
Cantilevered dining platform
Design element 11
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| Cantilevered deck platform designed by David Keegan |
Gate and Fence
Design element 12
Gate and fence from a project in Greenfield in Saddleworth, High Peaks and is the result of another collaboration with UK sculpture David Freedman. The gate and fence lead from fern garden to front hence the inspiration for the fern motif.
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| Gate with fern leaf motif based on 'Harts tongue fern' |
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| Unique gate latch arrangement |
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