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Doors & Gateways





 

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Dimensions:
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Imperial:
Height: 9"
Width: 7.5"
Depth: 3.5"


Metric:
Height: 230mm
Width: 191mm
Depth: 90mm

Weight: 2.7 kg

Disclaimer:
All dimensions, weight and colouring vary due to the natural materials used and the throughout handmade process.


Senate Doorway
Bronze Patinated



The bronze doors of the Senate wing are comparable to those in the House, each valve consisting of four panels.

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The panels are depicting:

Left Valve:
Laying of the Cornerstone of the United States Capitol.

Inauguration of George Washington as First President.

Ovation for George Washington at Trenton, New Jersey.

Medallion, Peace and Agriculture


Right Valve:
Battle of Bunker Hill and the Death of General Warren

Battle of Monmouth and the Rebuke of General Lee

Battle of Yorktown and the Gallantry of Alexander Hamilton

Medallion — War
 

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Dimensions:
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Imperial:
Height: 8.2"
Width: 5.8"
Depth: 2.5"

Metric:
Height: 220mm
Width: 150mm
Depth: 64mm

Weight: 2.9 kg

Disclaimer:
All dimensions, weight and colouring vary due to the natural materials used and the throughout handmade process.


Watts Chapel Doorway

The Watts Chapel is a chapel in a Modern Style version of Celtic Revival in the village cemetery of Compton in Surrey.

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Watts Cemetery Chapel is a labour of love and the final resting place of artists, George and Mary Watts.
The terracotta chapel was designed and built by Mary Watts. She built it with the help of local villagers in Compton, to whom she taught arts and crafts. It opened in 1898 and remains a working chapel to this day.
The Grade I listed Chapel is a unique fusion of art nouveau, Celtic, Romanesque and Egyptian influence, with Mary's own original style.



 

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Dimensions:
More Info
Imperial:
Height: 9"
Width: 4.5"
Depth: 6"

Metric:
Height: 230mm
Width: 153mm
Depth: 115mm

Weight: 2 kg

Disclaimer:
All dimensions, weight and colouring vary due to the natural materials used and the throughout handmade process.



Gaudi-Casa Mila Roof Doorway Barcelona

Located at Passeig de Gracia 92 in Barcelona, Spain, Sagrada Família.

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La Pedrera (which means quarry in English) was the last great civil work, which Gaudí created before dedicating his time to the construction of the

Construction was completed between 1906, the year in which Gaudí signed the first plans, and the end of December of 1910, Today La Pedrera is property of the financial entity Caixa de Catalunya. UNESCO declared it a World Heritage Site in 1984.
 

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Dimensions:
More Info
Imperial:
Height: 8.2"
Width: 5.8"
Depth: 2.5"

Metric:
Height: 220mm
Width: 150mm
Depth: 64mm

Weight: 2.9 kg

Disclaimer:
All dimensions, weight and colouring vary due to the natural materials used and the throughout handmade process.


10 Downing Street London

The name and specifically the door are infamous and iconic being the symbol of the highest political office.

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Formerly the site of the Axe Brewery, the site was built up in the
development by Mr Downing, an early graduate of Harvard University, Massachusetts whose turncoat wranglings during and after the English Civil War 16… 16…, assured his survival
and wealth but earned him few friends.


A century later the first First Minister ….Walpole
moved into the dark brick terrace beginning a political association as home and office of the
Prime Minister of Great Britain.



 

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Dimensions:
More Info
Imperial:
Height: 8"
Width: 6"
Depth: 3.5"

Metric:
Height: 203mm
Width: 152mm
Depth: 89mm

Weight: 1.8 kg

Disclaimer:
All dimensions, weight and colouring vary due to the natural materials used and the throughout handmade process.


Charlotte Square Edinburgh

This model features No. 28 Charlotte Square owned by the National Trust for Scotland.  
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In 1806 it was home to Sir John Sinclair creator of the first Statistical Account of Scotland.

No. 7 was internally restored by the Trust in 1975 to its original state, and is open to the public as The Georgian House.


The upper floor was formerly the official residence of the Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland. The building includes one fireplace brought from Hill of Tarvit in Fife in 1975.

Charlotte Square is a city square in Edinburgh, Scotland, part of the New Town, designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

The square is located at the west end of George Street, intended to mirror St. Andrew Square in the east.
 

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Dimensions:
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Imperial:
Height: 9.75"
Width: 7"
Depth: 2.5"

Metric:
Height: 200mm
Width: 150mm
Depth: 85mm

Weight: 1.6 kg

Disclaimer:
All dimensions, weight and colouring vary due to the natural materials used and the throughout handmade process.


Harward University Dexter Gate

Dexter Gate is a familiar landmark to all Harvard graduates.

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Harvard University was established in 1636 and is one of America’s earliest educational institutions after being set up by the General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.

On the face of its lintel is carved ‘Enter to grow in wisdom and on the reverse, depart to serve mankind’.

Harvard commissioned this bookend to commemorate the centenary of this landmark. In time it is hoped that other Ivy League and American universities may follow suit in commissioning their own models. The model was commissioned by Harvard and has been licensed to allow sales elsewhere.



 

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Dimensions:
More Info
Imperial:
Height: 8"
Width: 7"
Depth: 2.5"

Metric:
Height: 203mm
Width: 178mm
Depth: 63mm

Weight: 2.6 kg

Disclaimer:
All dimensions, weight and colouring vary due to the natural materials used and the throughout handmade process.


Hopetoun House Edinburgh

By the 1760’s the Adam brothers, of whom the best known is Robert, were dominating the architecture of Britain.
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They specialised in a mix of classical styles. The effect of liberally mixing Roman marbled interiors with Greek, Egyptian, Indian and Chinese additions released architecture from the sober approaches of previous architects.

The wealthy eagerly accepted the new fashionable style with a number of new houses being built and others being refurbished.

One example of these was Hopetoun House that overlooks the large estuary of the Firth of Fourth outside Edinburgh.

The bookend shows a detail from one of the wings, part of the Adam reshaping of this large country house.
 

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Dimensions:
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Imperial:
Height: 8.5"
Width: 6"
Depth: 2.5"

Metric:
Height: 200mm
Width: 150mm
Depth: 86mm

Weight: 2.1 kg

Disclaimer:
All dimensions, weight and colouring vary due to the natural materials used and the throughout handmade process.


Hotel Central Prague

The fluid organic lines of Art Nouveau surround this doorway from Prague.

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At the turn of the 20th century this sensual style was sweeping through Europe from Brussels to Paris, Spain and then across the Atlantic to North America and Canada.

This well worked example shows the excitement and energy of the period.

Elements of Art Nouveau can be traced right back to decoration of medieval manuscripts, a style revived and exploited by England’s William Morris and then carried into architectural excess by Victor Horta of Belgium and Hector Guimard who designed the Parisian metros.



 

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Dimensions:
More Info
Imperial:
Height: 7.5"
Width: 3.5"
Depth: 2.5"

Metric:
Height: 190mm
Width: 89mm
Depth: 53mm

Weight: 1.3 kg

Disclaimer:
All dimensions, weight and colouring vary due to the natural materials used and the throughout handmade process.


Jane Austen Doorway Bath

Designed by John Wood the Elder
When – 1735
Where – Bath, England.

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The Georgian town house is now famous by its association to Jane Austen.
Jane Austen (1775 – 1817) spent a great deal of her adult life in Bath.

Built of Bath stone the terraced row leads up to the circus and The Royal Crescent. Living here one could not help but engage in and observe Bath society as featured in many of her novels.

This model was developed as Tim wished to include the house of one of Baths most famous inhabitants. The pediment over the doorway is covered in beaten lead, a detail replicated in them model.
 

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Dimensions:
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Imperial:
Height: 7.5"
Width: 3.5"
Depth: 2.5"

Metric:
Height: 190mm
Width: 89mm
Depth: 53mm

Weight: 1.3 kg

Disclaimer:
All dimensions, weight and colouring vary due to the natural materials used and the throughout handmade process.


The Queens Doorway Kensington Palace

Where: Kensington Palace, Queens doorway
Designed by  Sir Christopher Wren.

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The Queen’s Doorway leads from the Royal Apartments to the private Gardens of King William and Queen Mary.

The initials WM (for William and Mary) are shown above the doorway on the central shield or “cartouche”.





 

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Dimensions:
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Imperial:
Height: 7.5"
Width: 3.5"
Depth: 2.5"

Metric:
Height: 190mm
Width: 89mm
Depth: 53mm

Weight: 1.3 kg

Disclaimer:
All dimensions, weight and colouring vary due to the natural materials used and the throughout handmade process.


Langley Park, Slough, London


Text to come

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Dimensions:
More Info
Imperial:
Height: 7.5"
Width: 3.5"
Depth: 2.5"

Metric:
Height: 190mm
Width: 89mm
Depth: 53mm

Weight: 1.3 kg

Disclaimer:
All dimensions, weight and colouring vary due to the natural materials used and the throughout handmade process.


West Doorway Glasgow School of Art

Designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh 1909 Glasgow, Scotland.

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Having completed the models of the west library tower and north front Tim returned to the Glasgow School of Art and wished to make a larger version of this particular doorway.


It has a unique character and shows Mackintosh at his most inventive.

The key stone is pushed back whilst a rolling curve breaks up into shapes filling the design with rhythm and power. It is both monumental and highly sensitive, both ancient and modern.

It is a pure and brilliant design. This was the first time Tim has taken a master and shot blasted the result giving the texture of old red sandstone of which the original was made.



 

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Dimensions:
More Info
Imperial:
Height: 7.5"
Width: 3.5"
Depth: 2.5"

Metric:
Height: 190mm
Width: 89mm
Depth: 53mm

Weight: 1.3 kg

Disclaimer:
All dimensions, weight and colouring vary due to the natural materials used and the throughout handmade process.


National Building Museum Washington DC

The National Building Museum was designed by Montgomery C. Meigs, the U.S. Army quartermaster general in 1887.  

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Its impressive architectural features include the spectacular interior columns and a frieze, sculpted by Caspar Buberl, stretching around the exterior of the building featuring Civil War soldiers in scenes mirroring those on Trajan’s Column and the Horsemen Frieze of the Parthenon.

Casper Buberl created the frieze which includes 28 different scenes. It totals 1,200-foot in length and includes over 1,300 figures. The sculpture includes infantry, navy, artillery, cavalry and medical components, as well as quartermasters due to the affiliation with Meigs role during the civil war.
 
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Dimensions:
More Info
Imperial:
Height: 7.5"
Width: 3.5"
Depth: 2.5"

Metric:
Height: 190mm
Width: 89mm
Depth: 53mm

Weight: 1.3 kg

Disclaimer:
All dimensions, weight and colouring vary due to the natural materials used and the throughout handmade process.


National Portrait Gallery London

Where: St. Martin’s Place, London.
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London has so many great landmark buildings it is often difficult to choose between them.

However, this grand design is eminently worthy of inclusion. The National Portrait Gallery is host to the portraits of the great, the good and the famously not so good, from Tudor England to present times. The three founding fathers look out from the wreathed niches whilst the lion and unicorn guard the double door entrance.

This model makes a classic bookend often chosen to pair with the Royal Academy bookend. It was commissioned by The National Portrait Gallery who also commissioned a limited edition that is now sold out.



 

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Dimensions:
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Imperial:
Height: 7.5"
Width: 3.5"
Depth: 2.5"

Metric:
Height: 190mm
Width: 89mm
Depth: 53mm

Weight: 1.3 kg

Disclaimer:
All dimensions, weight and colouring vary due to the natural materials used and the throughout handmade process.


University Notre Dame

The University of Notre Dame School of Architecture
South Bend Indiana
Bond Hall – 1917

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This is the entrance to a unique school whose philosophy is based on the principles of re-learning the lessons of the traditional city and its architecture.


As such this fine building honours and echoes the ethos, representing a precious place of learning, growth and relevance in a modern world; may its architects do great work.
 
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Dimensions:
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Imperial:
Height: 7.5"
Width: 3.5"
Depth: 2.5"

Metric:
Height: 190mm
Width: 89mm
Depth: 53mm

Weight: 1.3 kg

Disclaimer:
All dimensions, weight and colouring vary due to the natural materials used and the throughout handmade process.


Phelps Gate Yale University

Built in 1896 to the design of Charles Haight.
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This handsome gothic portal is remembered by all Yale students.
On the one side there is the enclosed world of the University, on the other the square and town. The gate was named after a popular English Professor called William Lyon “Billy” Phelps.


The Latin inscription above the gate is the university’s motto; ”Lux et Veritas” (Light and Truth)

The upward face of the base of the sculpture is inscribed with the first two lines of the Alma Mata:
“Bright years, with pleasure rife,
the shortest, gladdest years of life.”



 

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Dimensions:
More Info
Imperial:
Height: 7.5"
Width: 3.5"
Depth: 2.5"

Metric:
Height: 190mm
Width: 89mm
Depth: 53mm

Weight: 1.3 kg

Disclaimer:
All dimensions, weight and colouring vary due to the natural materials used and the throughout handmade process.


Royal Academy of Arts Archway London

Piccadilly, London 1873
The doorway portrays Athena, the Greek Goddess of knowledge
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looking outwards accompanied by the owl of wisdom that appears above her head.

The carved keystone is part of the pedestrian archway leading into The Royal Academy Courtyard of Burlington House, an earlier 17th century Palladian villa. The heavy wrought iron gate is accurately reproduced using a brass etched fret through which light will fall in precise shadow whether lit from in front or behind.

Originally commissioned by The Royal Academy 1996 and often chosen to pair with The National Portrait Gallery.
 

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Dimensions:
More Info
Imperial:
Height: 7.5"
Width: 3.5"
Depth: 2.5"

Metric:
Height: 190mm
Width: 89mm
Depth: 53mm

Weight: 1.3 kg

Disclaimer:
All dimensions, weight and colouring vary due to the natural materials used and the throughout handmade process.


St.Johns College Oxford Kings Doorway

Commissioned by Archbishop Laud
When: 1636
Where: St John’s College, Oxford.

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This detailed scale Timothy Richards doorway model is an iconic reference to one of Britain’s most prestigious colleges, Oxford University.

The Canterbury Quadrangle at St Johns College Oxford was the first example of Italian Renaissance architecture in Oxford.

The three connected Libraries are situated here including the Old Library, The Laudian Library and The Paddy Room.

The model features the entrance to the Great Lawn and Groves.

St Johns College is a constituent of Oxford University.

Sir Thomas White founded the college in 1555 to provide a source of educated Roman Catholics to aid Queen Mary’s reformation. It is the wealthiest college in Oxford.



 

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Dimensions:
More Info
Imperial:
Height: 7.5"
Width: 3.5"
Depth: 2.5"

Metric:
Height: 190mm
Width: 89mm
Depth: 53mm

Weight: 1.3 kg

Disclaimer:
All dimensions, weight and colouring vary due to the natural materials used and the throughout handmade process.


St.Johns College Oxford Queens Doorway

Commissioned by Archbishop Laud
When: 1636
Where: St John’s College, Oxford.
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This detailed scale Timothy Richards doorway model is an iconic reference to one of Britain’s most prestigious colleges, Oxford University.

The Canterbury Quadrangle at St Johns College Oxford was the first example of Italian Renaissance architecture in Oxford.

The three connected Libraries are situated here including the Old Library, The Laudian Library and The Paddy Room.

The model features the entrance to the Great Lawn and Groves.

St Johns College is a constituent of Oxford University.

Sir Thomas White founded the college in 1555 to provide a source of educated Roman Catholics to aid Queen Mary’s reformation. It is the wealthiest college in Oxford.
 

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Dimensions:
More Info
Imperial:
Height: 7.5"
Width: 3.5"
Depth: 2.5"

Metric:
Height: 190mm
Width: 89mm
Depth: 53mm

Weight: 1.3 kg

Disclaimer:
All dimensions, weight and colouring vary due to the natural materials used and the throughout handmade process.


Toronto Stock Exchange

234 Bay Street Toronto, Canada
Designed by George and Moorehouse with associate S.H. Maw.

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This detailed scale Timothy Richards doorway model provides a fine example of both modern and Art Deco style.

This single doorway model is of the second TSE, built on the original site and completed in 1937.

The style of the building is a mix of streamlined modern architecture and Art Deco.

The facade is made of limestone and pink granite with a fantastic frieze on the second floor level designed by Charles Comfort. The frieze depicts 33 life size figures each portraying the main Canadian industries.

These images are continued on in the stainless steel medallions carved into the front door.

The model is made of plaster, and brass with rose coloured glass behind the door.



 

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Dimensions:
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Imperial:
Height: 7.5"
Width: 3.5"
Depth: 2.5"

Metric:
Height: 190mm
Width: 89mm
Depth: 53mm

Weight: 1.3 kg

Disclaimer:
All dimensions, weight and colouring vary due to the natural materials used and the throughout handmade process.


Wallace Collection

1872
This doorway comes from Hertford House in Manchester Square, London.
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This large house contains an important collection of art, assembled by the Wallace family.

Within the beautiful rooms are displayed French paintings, furniture, wood carvings and medieval armour.

This is one of the places where curators come to study.

This elegant doorway is from the courtyard of the house and uses silk to create a screen between the outside and inside of the building.

The lead urns stand forward of the door, the eye guided through the silk to daylight beyond.
 

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Dimensions:
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Imperial:
Height: 7.5"
Width: 3.5"
Depth: 2.5"

Metric:
Height: 190mm
Width: 89mm
Depth: 53mm

Weight: 1.3 kg

Disclaimer:
All dimensions, weight and colouring vary due to the natural materials used and the throughout handmade process.


Rose Window Washington National Cathedral

Washington National Cathedral Georgetown Washington

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Designed and built in the style of the European Gothic Cathedrals, this great Church was built without interruption, between 1907 and 1990.

The stone masons carvers and cutters were led by the Italian Vincent Polumbo, who spent most of his working life on this great building.

The rose window above the West Front door is a highlight and modelled here in glass.



 

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Dimensions:
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Imperial:
Height: 7.5"
Width: 3.5"
Depth: 2.5"

Metric:
Height: 190mm
Width: 89mm
Depth: 53mm

Weight: 1.3 kg

Disclaimer:
All dimensions, weight and colouring vary due to the natural materials used and the throughout handmade process.


Washington National Cathedral Doorway

Way of Peace Doorway
Washington National Cathedral (1907-1990) Washington DC, USA.

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The official name of the cathedral is "The Cathedral Church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul", and is the 6th largest cathedral in the world. It took 83 years to complete. This is the cathedral’s oldest portal.

 

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Dimensions:
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Imperial:
Height: 7.5"
Width: 3.5"
Depth: 2.5"

Metric:
Height: 190mm
Width: 89mm
Depth: 53mm

Weight: 1.3 kg

Disclaimer:
All dimensions, weight and colouring vary due to the natural materials used and the throughout handmade process.


The White House Entrance Washington

Designed by James Hoban 1800 Washington, USA

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1600 Pennsylvania Avenue better known as The White House has stood as a powerful symbol of the Presidency, the United States government and the American people for over 200 years.

In December 1790 President George Washington signed an Act of Congress declaring that the federal government would reside in a district not exceeding 10 miles square on the river Potomac.

Irish born James Hoban won the competition to find a builder of the Presidents House. The model shows the front door approached via the portico of the north side.

The scale of the pillars and quality of detailing denote its status and authority.

The fine details on the model were captured from elevation plans and photographs taken by Timothy. Lead castings were used for the door handles, which were then hand painted in gold.



 

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Dimensions:
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Imperial:
Height: 7.5"
Width: 3.5"
Depth: 2.5"

Metric:
Height: 190mm
Width: 89mm
Depth: 53mm

Weight: 1.3 kg

Disclaimer:
All dimensions, weight and colouring vary due to the natural materials used and the throughout handmade process.


William Herschel
Museum Door Bath


William Herschel Museum: 1764
19 New King Street, Bath, England.

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It was from this house, using a telescope of his own design that William Herschel discovered the planet Uranus in 1781. 

Number 19 New King Street forms part of a terrace and is by Bath standards a modest town-house. 

It was built around 1764 and probably designed by one of the city’s less celebrated architects Strachan., and follows a fairly standard layout over five floors. 

200 years after the historic discovery of Uranus, the house was restored and inaugurated as a museum.

It was restored again in 2000 and today is a Grade II listed building.
 

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Dimensions:
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Imperial:
Height: 7.5"
Width: 3.5"
Depth: 2.5"

Metric:
Height: 190mm
Width: 89mm
Depth: 53mm

Weight: 1.3 kg

Disclaimer:
All dimensions, weight and colouring vary due to the natural materials used and the throughout handmade process.


Woburn Abbey

Bedfordshire, England.

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The history of the house begins in 1145 when Hugh de Bolebec founded a religious house for a group of Cistercian monks. In 1547 Edward VI granted Woburn Abbey to Sir John Russell, though it did not become a family home until 1619.


Today Woburn Abbey is set in a beautiful 3,000 acre deer park and is occupied by the 15th Duke of Bedford and his family.

The model is a detail of the centre of the west front section of the house and was commissioned by Henrietta, the Marchioness of Tavistock. The model features also the Marchionesses’ two dogs portrayed in lead either side of the front door.
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Doors & Gateways


 

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Dimensions:
More Info
Imperial:
Height: 9"
Width: 4.5"
Depth: 6"

Metric:
Height: 230mm
Width: 153mm
Depth: 115mm

Weight: 2 kg

Disclaimer:
All dimensions, weight and colouring vary due to the natural materials used and the throughout handmade process.



Senate Doorway


The bronze doors of the Senate wing are comparable to those in the House, each valve consisting of four panels.

More Info
The panels are depicting:

Left Valve:
Laying of the Cornerstone of the United States Capitol.

Inauguration of George Washington as First President.

Ovation for George Washington at Trenton, New Jersey.

Medallion, Peace and Agriculture


Right Valve:
Battle of Bunker Hill and the Death of General Warren

Battle of Monmouth and the Rebuke of General Lee

Battle of Yorktown and the Gallantry of Alexander Hamilton

Medallion — War
 

Click on the image to enlarge.


Dimensions:
More Info
Imperial:
Height: 8.2"
Width: 5.8"
Depth: 2.5"

Metric:
Height: 220mm
Width: 150mm
Depth: 64mm

Weight: 2.9 kg

Disclaimer:
All dimensions, weight and colouring vary due to the natural materials used and the throughout handmade process.


Watts Chapel Doorway

The Watts Chapel is a chapel in a Modern Style version of Celtic Revival in the village cemetery of Compton in Surrey.

More Info
Watts Cemetery Chapel is a labour of love and the final resting place of artists, George and Mary Watts.
The terracotta chapel was designed and built by Mary Watts. She built it with the help of local villagers in Compton, to whom she taught arts and crafts. It opened in 1898 and remains a working chapel to this day.
The Grade I listed Chapel is a unique fusion of art nouveau, Celtic, Romanesque and Egyptian influence, with Mary's own original style.



 

Click on the image to enlarge.

Dimensions:
More Info
Imperial:
Height: 9"
Width: 4.5"
Depth: 6"

Metric:
Height: 230mm
Width: 153mm
Depth: 115mm

Weight: 2 kg

Disclaimer:
All dimensions, weight and colouring vary due to the natural materials used and the throughout handmade process.



Gaudi-Casa Mila Roof Doorway Barcelona

Located at Passeig de Gracia 92 in Barcelona, Spain, Sagrada Família.

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La Pedrera (which means quarry in English) was the last great civil work, which Gaudí created before dedicating his time to the construction of the

Construction was completed between 1906, the year in which Gaudí signed the first plans, and the end of December of 1910, Today La Pedrera is property of the financial entity Caixa de Catalunya. UNESCO declared it a World Heritage Site in 1984.
 

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Dimensions:
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Imperial:
Height: 8.2"
Width: 5.8"
Depth: 2.5"

Metric:
Height: 220mm
Width: 150mm
Depth: 64mm

Weight: 2.9 kg

Disclaimer:
All dimensions, weight and colouring vary due to the natural materials used and the throughout handmade process.


10 Downing Street London

The name and specifically the door are infamous and iconic being the symbol of the highest political office.

More Info
Formerly the site of the Axe Brewery, the site was built up in the
development by Mr Downing, an early graduate of Harvard University, Massachusetts whose turncoat wranglings during and after the English Civil War 16… 16…, assured his survival
and wealth but earned him few friends.


A century later the first First Minister ….Walpole
moved into the dark brick terrace beginning a political association as home and office of the
Prime Minister of Great Britain.



 

Click on the image to enlarge.

Dimensions:
More Info
Imperial:
Height: 8"
Width: 6"
Depth: 3.5"

Metric:
Height: 203mm
Width: 152mm
Depth: 89mm

Weight: 1.8 kg

Disclaimer:
All dimensions, weight and colouring vary due to the natural materials used and the throughout handmade process.


Charlotte Square Edinburgh

This model features No. 28 Charlotte Square owned by the National Trust for Scotland.  
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In 1806 it was home to Sir John Sinclair creator of the first Statistical Account of Scotland.

No. 7 was internally restored by the Trust in 1975 to its original state, and is open to the public as The Georgian House.


The upper floor was formerly the official residence of the Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland. The building includes one fireplace brought from Hill of Tarvit in Fife in 1975.

Charlotte Square is a city square in Edinburgh, Scotland, part of the New Town, designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

The square is located at the west end of George Street, intended to mirror St. Andrew Square in the east.
 

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Dimensions:
More Info
Imperial:
Height: 9.75"
Width: 7"
Depth: 2.5"

Metric:
Height: 200mm
Width: 150mm
Depth: 85mm

Weight: 1.6 kg

Disclaimer:
All dimensions, weight and colouring vary due to the natural materials used and the throughout handmade process.


Harward University Dexter Gate

Dexter Gate is a familiar landmark to all Harvard graduates.

More Info
Harvard University was established in 1636 and is one of America’s earliest educational institutions after being set up by the General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.

On the face of its lintel is carved ‘Enter to grow in wisdom and on the reverse, depart to serve mankind’.

Harvard commissioned this bookend to commemorate the centenary of this landmark. In time it is hoped that other Ivy League and American universities may follow suit in commissioning their own models. The model was commissioned by Harvard and has been licensed to allow sales elsewhere.



 

Click on the image to enlarge.

Dimensions:
More Info
Imperial:
Height: 8"
Width: 7"
Depth: 2.5"

Metric:
Height: 203mm
Width: 178mm
Depth: 63mm

Weight: 2.6 kg

Disclaimer:
All dimensions, weight and colouring vary due to the natural materials used and the throughout handmade process.


Hopetoun House Edinburgh

By the 1760’s the Adam brothers, of whom the best known is Robert, were dominating the architecture of Britain.
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They specialised in a mix of classical styles. The effect of liberally mixing Roman marbled interiors with Greek, Egyptian, Indian and Chinese additions released architecture from the sober approaches of previous architects.

The wealthy eagerly accepted the new fashionable style with a number of new houses being built and others being refurbished.

One example of these was Hopetoun House that overlooks the large estuary of the Firth of Fourth outside Edinburgh.

The bookend shows a detail from one of the wings, part of the Adam reshaping of this large country house.
 

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Dimensions:
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Height: 8.5"
Width: 6"
Depth: 2.5"

Metric:
Height: 200mm
Width: 150mm
Depth: 86mm

Weight: 2.1 kg

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All dimensions, weight and colouring vary due to the natural materials used and the throughout handmade process.


Hotel Central Prague

The fluid organic lines of Art Nouveau surround this doorway from Prague.

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At the turn of the 20th century this sensual style was sweeping through Europe from Brussels to Paris, Spain and then across the Atlantic to North America and Canada.

This well worked example shows the excitement and energy of the period.

Elements of Art Nouveau can be traced right back to decoration of medieval manuscripts, a style revived and exploited by England’s William Morris and then carried into architectural excess by Victor Horta of Belgium and Hector Guimard who designed the Parisian metros.



 

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Dimensions:
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Height: 7.5"
Width: 3.5"
Depth: 2.5"

Metric:
Height: 190mm
Width: 89mm
Depth: 53mm

Weight: 1.3 kg

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All dimensions, weight and colouring vary due to the natural materials used and the throughout handmade process.


Jane Austen Doorway Bath

Designed by John Wood the Elder
When – 1735
Where – Bath, England.

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The Georgian town house is now famous by its association to Jane Austen.
Jane Austen (1775 – 1817) spent a great deal of her adult life in Bath.

Built of Bath stone the terraced row leads up to the circus and The Royal Crescent. Living here one could not help but engage in and observe Bath society as featured in many of her novels.

This model was developed as Tim wished to include the house of one of Baths most famous inhabitants. The pediment over the doorway is covered in beaten lead, a detail replicated in them model.
 

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Dimensions:
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Imperial:
Height: 7.5"
Width: 3.5"
Depth: 2.5"

Metric:
Height: 190mm
Width: 89mm
Depth: 53mm

Weight: 1.3 kg

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All dimensions, weight and colouring vary due to the natural materials used and the throughout handmade process.


The Queens Doorway Kensington Palace

Where: Kensington Palace, Queens doorway
Designed by  Sir Christopher Wren.

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The Queen’s Doorway leads from the Royal Apartments to the private Gardens of King William and Queen Mary.

The initials WM (for William and Mary) are shown above the doorway on the central shield or “cartouche”.





 

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Dimensions:
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Imperial:
Height: 7.5"
Width: 3.5"
Depth: 2.5"

Metric:
Height: 190mm
Width: 89mm
Depth: 53mm

Weight: 1.3 kg

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All dimensions, weight and colouring vary due to the natural materials used and the throughout handmade process.


Langley Park, Slough, London


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Dimensions:
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Height: 7.5"
Width: 3.5"
Depth: 2.5"

Metric:
Height: 190mm
Width: 89mm
Depth: 53mm

Weight: 1.3 kg

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All dimensions, weight and colouring vary due to the natural materials used and the throughout handmade process.


West Doorway Glasgow School of Art

Designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh 1909 Glasgow, Scotland.

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Having completed the models of the west library tower and north front Tim returned to the Glasgow School of Art and wished to make a larger version of this particular doorway.


It has a unique character and shows Mackintosh at his most inventive.

The key stone is pushed back whilst a rolling curve breaks up into shapes filling the design with rhythm and power. It is both monumental and highly sensitive, both ancient and modern.

It is a pure and brilliant design. This was the first time Tim has taken a master and shot blasted the result giving the texture of old red sandstone of which the original was made.



 

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Dimensions:
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Imperial:
Height: 7.5"
Width: 3.5"
Depth: 2.5"

Metric:
Height: 190mm
Width: 89mm
Depth: 53mm

Weight: 1.3 kg

Disclaimer:
All dimensions, weight and colouring vary due to the natural materials used and the throughout handmade process.


National Building Museum Washington DC

The National Building Museum was designed by Montgomery C. Meigs, the U.S. Army quartermaster general in 1887.  

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Its impressive architectural features include the spectacular interior columns and a frieze, sculpted by Caspar Buberl, stretching around the exterior of the building featuring Civil War soldiers in scenes mirroring those on Trajan’s Column and the Horsemen Frieze of the Parthenon.

Casper Buberl created the frieze which includes 28 different scenes. It totals 1,200-foot in length and includes over 1,300 figures. The sculpture includes infantry, navy, artillery, cavalry and medical components, as well as quartermasters due to the affiliation with Meigs role during the civil war.
 
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Dimensions:
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Imperial:
Height: 7.5"
Width: 3.5"
Depth: 2.5"

Metric:
Height: 190mm
Width: 89mm
Depth: 53mm

Weight: 1.3 kg

Disclaimer:
All dimensions, weight and colouring vary due to the natural materials used and the throughout handmade process.


National Portrait Gallery London

Where: St. Martin’s Place, London.
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London has so many great landmark buildings it is often difficult to choose between them.

However, this grand design is eminently worthy of inclusion. The National Portrait Gallery is host to the portraits of the great, the good and the famously not so good, from Tudor England to present times. The three founding fathers look out from the wreathed niches whilst the lion and unicorn guard the double door entrance.

This model makes a classic bookend often chosen to pair with the Royal Academy bookend. It was commissioned by The National Portrait Gallery who also commissioned a limited edition that is now sold out.



 

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Dimensions:
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Imperial:
Height: 7.5"
Width: 3.5"
Depth: 2.5"

Metric:
Height: 190mm
Width: 89mm
Depth: 53mm

Weight: 1.3 kg

Disclaimer:
All dimensions, weight and colouring vary due to the natural materials used and the throughout handmade process.


University Notre Dame

The University of Notre Dame School of Architecture
South Bend Indiana
Bond Hall – 1917

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This is the entrance to a unique school whose philosophy is based on the principles of re-learning the lessons of the traditional city and its architecture.


As such this fine building honours and echoes the ethos, representing a precious place of learning, growth and relevance in a modern world; may its architects do great work.
 
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Dimensions:
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Imperial:
Height: 7.5"
Width: 3.5"
Depth: 2.5"

Metric:
Height: 190mm
Width: 89mm
Depth: 53mm

Weight: 1.3 kg

Disclaimer:
All dimensions, weight and colouring vary due to the natural materials used and the throughout handmade process.


Phelps Gate Yale University

Built in 1896 to the design of Charles Haight.
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This handsome gothic portal is remembered by all Yale students.
On the one side there is the enclosed world of the University, on the other the square and town. The gate was named after a popular English Professor called William Lyon “Billy” Phelps.


The Latin inscription above the gate is the university’s motto; ”Lux et Veritas” (Light and Truth)

The upward face of the base of the sculpture is inscribed with the first two lines of the Alma Mata:
“Bright years, with pleasure rife,
the shortest, gladdest years of life.”



 

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Dimensions:
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Imperial:
Height: 7.5"
Width: 3.5"
Depth: 2.5"

Metric:
Height: 190mm
Width: 89mm
Depth: 53mm

Weight: 1.3 kg

Disclaimer:
All dimensions, weight and colouring vary due to the natural materials used and the throughout handmade process.


Royal Academy of Arts Archway London

Piccadilly, London 1873
The doorway portrays Athena, the Greek Goddess of knowledge
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looking outwards accompanied by the owl of wisdom that appears above her head.

The carved keystone is part of the pedestrian archway leading into The Royal Academy Courtyard of Burlington House, an earlier 17th century Palladian villa. The heavy wrought iron gate is accurately reproduced using a brass etched fret through which light will fall in precise shadow whether lit from in front or behind.

Originally commissioned by The Royal Academy 1996 and often chosen to pair with The National Portrait Gallery.
 

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Dimensions:
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Imperial:
Height: 7.5"
Width: 3.5"
Depth: 2.5"

Metric:
Height: 190mm
Width: 89mm
Depth: 53mm

Weight: 1.3 kg

Disclaimer:
All dimensions, weight and colouring vary due to the natural materials used and the throughout handmade process.


St.Johns College Oxford Kings Doorway

Commissioned by Archbishop Laud
When: 1636
Where: St John’s College, Oxford.

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This detailed scale Timothy Richards doorway model is an iconic reference to one of Britain’s most prestigious colleges, Oxford University.

The Canterbury Quadrangle at St Johns College Oxford was the first example of Italian Renaissance architecture in Oxford.

The three connected Libraries are situated here including the Old Library, The Laudian Library and The Paddy Room.

The model features the entrance to the Great Lawn and Groves.

St Johns College is a constituent of Oxford University.

Sir Thomas White founded the college in 1555 to provide a source of educated Roman Catholics to aid Queen Mary’s reformation. It is the wealthiest college in Oxford.



 

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Dimensions:
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Imperial:
Height: 7.5"
Width: 3.5"
Depth: 2.5"

Metric:
Height: 190mm
Width: 89mm
Depth: 53mm

Weight: 1.3 kg

Disclaimer:
All dimensions, weight and colouring vary due to the natural materials used and the throughout handmade process.


St.Johns College Oxford Queens Doorway

Commissioned by Archbishop Laud
When: 1636
Where: St John’s College, Oxford.
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This detailed scale Timothy Richards doorway model is an iconic reference to one of Britain’s most prestigious colleges, Oxford University.

The Canterbury Quadrangle at St Johns College Oxford was the first example of Italian Renaissance architecture in Oxford.

The three connected Libraries are situated here including the Old Library, The Laudian Library and The Paddy Room.

The model features the entrance to the Great Lawn and Groves.

St Johns College is a constituent of Oxford University.

Sir Thomas White founded the college in 1555 to provide a source of educated Roman Catholics to aid Queen Mary’s reformation. It is the wealthiest college in Oxford.
 

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Dimensions:
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Imperial:
Height: 7.5"
Width: 3.5"
Depth: 2.5"

Metric:
Height: 190mm
Width: 89mm
Depth: 53mm

Weight: 1.3 kg

Disclaimer:
All dimensions, weight and colouring vary due to the natural materials used and the throughout handmade process.


Toronto Stock Exchange

234 Bay Street Toronto, Canada
Designed by George and Moorehouse with associate S.H. Maw.

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This detailed scale Timothy Richards doorway model provides a fine example of both modern and Art Deco style.

This single doorway model is of the second TSE, built on the original site and completed in 1937.

The style of the building is a mix of streamlined modern architecture and Art Deco.

The facade is made of limestone and pink granite with a fantastic frieze on the second floor level designed by Charles Comfort. The frieze depicts 33 life size figures each portraying the main Canadian industries.

These images are continued on in the stainless steel medallions carved into the front door.

The model is made of plaster, and brass with rose coloured glass behind the door.



 

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Dimensions:
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Imperial:
Height: 7.5"
Width: 3.5"
Depth: 2.5"

Metric:
Height: 190mm
Width: 89mm
Depth: 53mm

Weight: 1.3 kg

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All dimensions, weight and colouring vary due to the natural materials used and the throughout handmade process.


Wallace Collection

1872
This doorway comes from Hertford House in Manchester Square, London.
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This large house contains an important collection of art, assembled by the Wallace family.

Within the beautiful rooms are displayed French paintings, furniture, wood carvings and medieval armour.

This is one of the places where curators come to study.

This elegant doorway is from the courtyard of the house and uses silk to create a screen between the outside and inside of the building.

The lead urns stand forward of the door, the eye guided through the silk to daylight beyond.
 

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Dimensions:
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Height: 7.5"
Width: 3.5"
Depth: 2.5"

Metric:
Height: 190mm
Width: 89mm
Depth: 53mm

Weight: 1.3 kg

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All dimensions, weight and colouring vary due to the natural materials used and the throughout handmade process.


Rose Window Washington National Cathedral

Washington National Cathedral Georgetown Washington

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Designed and built in the style of the European Gothic Cathedrals, this great Church was built without interruption, between 1907 and 1990.

The stone masons carvers and cutters were led by the Italian Vincent Polumbo, who spent most of his working life on this great building.

The rose window above the West Front door is a highlight and modelled here in glass.



 

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Dimensions:
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Height: 7.5"
Width: 3.5"
Depth: 2.5"

Metric:
Height: 190mm
Width: 89mm
Depth: 53mm

Weight: 1.3 kg

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All dimensions, weight and colouring vary due to the natural materials used and the throughout handmade process.


Washington National Cathedral Doorway

Way of Peace Doorway
Washington National Cathedral (1907-1990) Washington DC, USA.

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The official name of the cathedral is "The Cathedral Church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul", and is the 6th largest cathedral in the world. It took 83 years to complete. This is the cathedral’s oldest portal.

 

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Height: 7.5"
Width: 3.5"
Depth: 2.5"

Metric:
Height: 190mm
Width: 89mm
Depth: 53mm

Weight: 1.3 kg

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All dimensions, weight and colouring vary due to the natural materials used and the throughout handmade process.


The White House Entrance Washington

Designed by James Hoban 1800 Washington, USA

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1600 Pennsylvania Avenue better known as The White House has stood as a powerful symbol of the Presidency, the United States government and the American people for over 200 years.

In December 1790 President George Washington signed an Act of Congress declaring that the federal government would reside in a district not exceeding 10 miles square on the river Potomac.

Irish born James Hoban won the competition to find a builder of the Presidents House. The model shows the front door approached via the portico of the north side.

The scale of the pillars and quality of detailing denote its status and authority.

The fine details on the model were captured from elevation plans and photographs taken by Timothy. Lead castings were used for the door handles, which were then hand painted in gold.



 

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Dimensions:
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Imperial:
Height: 7.5"
Width: 3.5"
Depth: 2.5"

Metric:
Height: 190mm
Width: 89mm
Depth: 53mm

Weight: 1.3 kg

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All dimensions, weight and colouring vary due to the natural materials used and the throughout handmade process.


William Herschel
Museum Door Bath


William Herschel Museum: 1764
19 New King Street, Bath, England.

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It was from this house, using a telescope of his own design that William Herschel discovered the planet Uranus in 1781. 

Number 19 New King Street forms part of a terrace and is by Bath standards a modest town-house. 

It was built around 1764 and probably designed by one of the city’s less celebrated architects Strachan., and follows a fairly standard layout over five floors. 

200 years after the historic discovery of Uranus, the house was restored and inaugurated as a museum.

It was restored again in 2000 and today is a Grade II listed building.
 

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Dimensions:
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Height: 7.5"
Width: 3.5"
Depth: 2.5"

Metric:
Height: 190mm
Width: 89mm
Depth: 53mm

Weight: 1.3 kg

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All dimensions, weight and colouring vary due to the natural materials used and the throughout handmade process.


Woburn Abbey

Bedfordshire, England.

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The history of the house begins in 1145 when Hugh de Bolebec founded a religious house for a group of Cistercian monks. In 1547 Edward VI granted Woburn Abbey to Sir John Russell, though it did not become a family home until 1619.


Today Woburn Abbey is set in a beautiful 3,000 acre deer park and is occupied by the 15th Duke of Bedford and his family.

The model is a detail of the centre of the west front section of the house and was commissioned by Henrietta, the Marchioness of Tavistock. The model features also the Marchionesses’ two dogs portrayed in lead either side of the front door.