Luxury House ARCHITECTURE| FURNITURE | DESIGN
Vol. IX
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DOORS
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Contents
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Features
4 Introduction 24 Case Study 12 Gates of Paradise
Maravilla Retirement Community
& Gates of Hell
Galleries 6 Crimson 18 Pastel
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Nothing is stronger than a first impression. A warm suburban home greets its visitors with a tenderly-cultivated garden and a quaint wooden door. The soft electric hiss of automatic sliding doors beckons you into a gleaming department store. Rich oaken architraves reveal the wealth and sophistication of a luxurious modern mansion. D o o r s a r e s o mu ch m o r e t h a n entrances and exits. They set the tone for homes, stores, and offices. They’re the beginning of every journey, and they welcome you home every night. As visual assets, they’re visible, memorable, and, when implemented properly, invaluable. Because doors connect a building’s interior to the world outside, they present designers with unique challenges. A front door with expansive inlaid windows provides a building with light and warmth, but it can also leave it vulnerable to potential invaders. Thick, heavy wood insulates interiors through long and snowy winters, but it can be stifling in warmer climates. In this issue of Luxur y House, we’ll showcase a wide array of beautiful doors and door fixtures; we’ll examine how two artists crafted some of the most recognizable gateways in the Western world; and we’ll present an in-depth study of how JELD-WEN crafted a unique set of doors for the Maravilla Retirement Community of Scottsdale, Arizona. Welcome to Luxury House. w
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It’s nothing new to want the best door for your building. Here, we'll examine how two of history’s greatest artists fused art and architecture to craft some of the most famous gates in the Western world.
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hen the Florence Baptistery announced in 1401 that it would hold a contest to determine who would receive the privilege of sculpting its new doors, some of the most famous Renaissance artists jumped at the opportunity to compete. After defeating the other artists (including none other than Donatello), two contestants remained: Filippo Brunelleschi and the 23-year-old Lorenzo Ghiberti. Ghiberti, if we can believe his autobiography, won the final round without a single dissenting vote. (Brunelleschi, undeterred by his defeat, would later make his name in art and architectural history by engineering the dome of the Florence Cathedral.) Ghiberti’s baptistery gates so impressed his patrons that they soon commissioned him to sculpt a second pair. These new gates would become the masterpiece for which Ghiberti is remembered today. Michelangelo, upon seeing the finished products, dubbed them the “Gates of Paradise.” The name stuck, although Ghiberti himself never employed the term. Ghiberti’s gates feature a series of ten panels, each of which is marked with a relief depicting a different passage from the Old Testament. Among the featured characters are Adam and Eve, Jacob and Esau, and David and Goliath. Whereas previous artists would sculpt only one story
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p e r p a n e l , r e q u i r i n g a n mold. Through the tubes in gold behind. Due to mercury’s entire door to depict a single the back, Ghiberti would have extreme toxicity, this method is narrative, Ghiberti carved poured molten bronze. After extremely dangerous, and it is multiple images into the same the metal cooled, he chipped no longer practiced today. panel, leaving himself plenty of away the clay and broke off the Ghiberti’s brightlyfree space on which to carve tubular structures—this final polished gates brilliantly convey more stories than the majesty and other artists could splendor of ever match. Heaven. Repaired .........Art historians and restored in are divided on the 1990s, today how exactly they stand in an Ghiberti crafted Italian museum; his gates. Most exact copies of believe that the the original gates artist used a hang on the method known as Baptistery. For Details depicting the Biblical stories of Adam & Eve and Noah, lost-wax casting. more than 500 respectively. Ghiberti probably years, Ghiberti’s sculpted his panels out of wax step left marks that visitors can gates have set the tone for and then attached long, tubular still see today. the Florence Baptistery and wax structures to the panels’ .........Ghiberti used a concoction symbolized the possibilities of backs. He would then cover of gold dust and mercury to artistic architecture. the wax with clay and bake the paint his gates. After painting entire product. The heat melted the bronze, he burned off the wax, leaving a hollow clay the mercury, leaving only the
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......N 1880, Auguste Rodin ......received a commission from a Parisian decorative arts museum to sculpt new doors. His commissioners gave him the freedom to choose whatever subject he desired. Inspired by Ghiberti’s “Gates of Paradise,” Rodin sought to create a set of gates that was equally striking. He chose Dante Alighieri’s Inferno as his theme; Rodin’s gates would be self-conscious antitheses to Ghiberti’s. As a young man, Rodin was rejected by the École des Beaux-Arts, Paris’s most prestigious art academy. He was forced to formulate his own style, bereft of the institutional neo-classicism that was in vogue among the upper class. Left to his own
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devices, Rodin developed a sculpting style whose highlights included sharp, violent body movements; intense emotion; and richly textured materials.
Rodin was both hailed as an ar tistic visionar y and condemned for renouncing traditional modes of composition. For 37 years, he toiled over the “Gates of Hell,” his style developing and changing as he did so. Merely by looking at his gates, art historians can trace the development of Rodin’s technique from 1880 until his death in 1917. The “Gates of Hell” features over 180 independent figures, many of which are now iconic works of art in their own right. Most notable among these is “The Thinker,” which is often said to represent A full bronze cast of Rodin's Dante, Adam, or even Rodin “Gates of Hell.” himself. Rodin removed another famous figure, “The .............During his lifetime, Kiss,” because he felt that it
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conflicted with the gates’ theme of suffering These figures, among many others, are so recognizable that few people realize they are only pieces of a much larger whole.
Rodin's gates depict the terrifying threat of eternal punishment.
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While Rodin lived, the Gates of Hell were only cast in plaster. After his death, however, they were cast in bronze in imitation of Ghiberti’s. Rodin’s gates, unlike the “Gates of Paradise,” gleam darkly, without polish. Contrary to Ghiberti’s representation of a divine afterlife, Rodin’s gates depict the terrifying threat of eternal punishment. Although the decorative arts museum for which the gates were commissioned was never completed, Rodin’s gates stand today as powerful symbols of what could have been. They demonstrate how artists can engage with the past while still creating something new, and they remind viewers that art and architecture are inseparable. w
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Case Study
MARAVILLA Retirement Community Scottsdale, Arizona
Project Challenge More than a real estate development, much more than a retirement center, the Maravilla Scottsdale senior living community is designed for people aged “62 and better,” as the management likes to say. And they don’t call it an “old folks’ home.” Not contemporary, not traditional, but unique—that’s the feel of this amenityrich community located on 26 acres.
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Maravilla residents expect nothing but the best, and they have options aplenty. They may choose private living quarters that either a casita or a condominium provides. An assisted living wing with a memory care unit is also on site. Maravilla’s retirement resort lifestyle surroundings have a cohesive architecture unified by a clubhouse feel, especially in the common areas.
Architectural Solution JELD-WEN coordinated styles and matched exterior colors on all of the windows and patio doors. The windows and doors are an important feature
of the design and their color and style coordination was a critical benefit to the architectural team because a breadth of materials and products were used. The private condominiums and casitas feature Premium Aluminum windows and Siteline EX Swing Patio doors. Santa Fe entr y doors with 20-minute fire ratings were used in the condominium unit entries and Custom Wood entry doors were used in the casita entries. Carved two-panel interior doors were used in all of the units. The full-time care unit features JELD-WEN Custom Wood doors with unique custom carved grille inlays, also created by JELD-WEN, in the dining
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room and library, as well as several other special use rooms in the building. JELDWEN Carved two-panel interior doors lend a comfortable feel, and JELD-WEN Custom Wood 90-minute fire rated doors and jambs with the intumescent edges in the door slabs provide passive fire protection. Maravilla’s full ser vice resort atmosphere is instantly apparent in the many common areas in the lodge and spa buildings, where Arizona’s abundant natural light filters through JELD-WEN Siteline EX direct set and picture windows that coordinate seamlessly with Custom Clad Epic bi-folding doors and large stud pocket mull systems comprised of Custom Clad direct set sidelights and transoms. w
Product Details Custom Clad Epic Doors with Custom Clad direct set sidelights and transom
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Custom Clad Bi-folding door system with Epic panels and transom system
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Siteline EX Clad Swing Patio Doors
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Premium Aluminum Windows
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Carved two panel ¼” thick interior doors
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Carved two panel 1 ¾” thick interior doors
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Custom Wood interior doors
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Custom Wood exterior doors
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Custom Wood doors with custom carved grill inlays
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Custom Wood 90-minute fire rated doors and jambs with the intumescent edges in the door slabs
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Project Team
Developer: SRG Builder: The WEITZ Company Architect: Allen + Philp Architects, Scottsdale
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Santa Fe Solid Core 20-minute fire rated entry door
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Acknowledgments Photographs
All images (excluding JELD-WEN's) are licensed under CC BY 2.0
Cover Photo
Image 3: “Victorian doorway” by liz west flickr.com/photos/calliope/
Image 4: “Deerfield Door” by Richard Taylor flickr.com/photos/34094515@N00/
Image 5: “New England doorway in Autumn” by Liz West flickr.com/photos/calliope/
Image 6: “Blue Door - White Wall” by Klearchos Kapoutsis flickr.com/photos/klearchos/
Image 7: “Versailles” by Chris Ruggles flickr.com/photos/crug/
Case Study: Maravilla Retirement Community All images courtesy of JELD-WEN Windows and Doors
jeld-wen.com/professional/tools-education/case-studies/526-maravilla-retirementcommunity-scottsdale-arizona
“Wudang Shan” by Tauno Tõhk flickr.com/photos/toehk/
Contents
Text Gates of Paradise & Gates of Hell The Art Institute of Chicago
“Chinese Gardens” by Christopher
artic.edu/aic/exhibitions/ghiberti/themes.html
Introduction
musee-rodin.fr/en/collections/sculptures/gates-hell
flickr.com/photos/hydrolix/
The Musée Rodin
The National Museum of Western Art
Untitled by Uday Phalgun
collection.nmwa.go.jp/en/S.1959-0045.html
Gallery I
rodinmuseum.org/collections/collectiontheme/4.html
flickr.com/photos/phalgunpix/
Image 1: “Church Door” by Rodney Campbell flickr.com/photos/acrylicartist/
Image 2: “Door of a Country Church” by Don O’Brien flickr.com/photos/dok1/
Image 3: “Sultanahmet Façades” by Miguel Virkkunen Carvalho flickr.com/photos/miguelvirkkunen/
Image 4: “Three Doors” by Tim Green flickr.com/photos/atoach/
Image 5: “Red Door” by Taymaz Valley flickr.com/photos/taymazvalley/
Image 6: “Procesos Cognitivos / Cognitive Processes” by bachmont flickr.com/photos/bachmont/
Gates of Paradise & Gates of Hell
Image 1: “Gates of Paradise” by Richard Barrett-Small flickr.com/photos/richbs/
Image 2: “Gates of Paradise” by Justin Norris flickr.com/photos/consciousvision/
Image 3: “Baptistery of St. John, from the Piazza del Duomo” by Brian Burk flickr.com/photos/28709589@N02/
Image 4: “Gates of Hell (Detail) (1900)” by Rodney flickr.com/photos/rjhuttondfw/
Image 5: Untitled by Jack Hebert
The Rodin Museum
The Smithsonian Museum
smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/the-gates-of-paradise-174431341/?page=1
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Image 6: “Rodin Museum” by Angela N. flickr.com/photos/aon/
Gallery II
Image 1: “Beautiful entryway” by Karol M. flickr.com/photos/byrdiegyrl/
Image 2: “Colourful Façades” by K B flickr.com/photos/albireo2006/
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