Stairs and Lighting Fixture

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A couple more collaborations with artist Juan Carlos Vargas.

Modern

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Stainless Steel Gates and Aluminum Railings, Steel and Glass Railings.

Mig, Tig and Heliarc are a specialty we are experts at.

Anything with in a 6 block radius of the ocean,

we always suggest non-ferous metals which will never rust and carries a good warranty.

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Christian Lewis.

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Christian Lewis: We do Signs !!!

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Here are some of my recent Sign Projects. First is CnC'd Aluminum with #4 line finish done for Mario Moya's Fall Collection, Second is Stainless Steel and Plexi glass both projects were done in collaboration with Jon Due CEO of Nite-lite Signs.

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Christian Lewis: Charlie Chaplin Mansion

Some photo's from a project that was a collaboration between designer/artist Juan Carlos Vargas and myself. This project was executed at the Charlie Chaplin Mansion in the Hollywood Hills for the new owner. It was kept somewhat historically true but had some major twists interjected by the architect. We were given some artist license on the " Art Nouveau" railings but held fast when it came to the "Gothic" style railngs which were custom cut and cast in steel after which we did a bronze rub finish. The Nouveau railings were riveted together to achieve that authentic style with no welds showing.

Christian Lewis: Tower Grove Main Entry Gate

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Another fabulous completion.

This "Gothic" style gate was only part of a project we did in Beverly Hills for Kovac Architects, Inc. and the famous Ferguson and Shamamiam LLC of New York. This is the main entry gate which was constructed of solid forged iron and custom cast steel. All the patterns and molds for castings were made in-house with all the factors such as shrinkage and grinding calculated in, due to the geometrical shapes of the castings the smallest fraction of deviation in size would throw off the entire dimention of the gate. We did the finish in hand rubbed pewter, antiqued it then gave it a clear coat for longevity.

The installation was another story on it's own as the gate elevates a full twelve inches following the bias of the driveway with each leaf wieghing about 700 lbs. We used custom made elevating hinges (as seen in the above photos) which were installed on 6"x 6" x 1/2" angle iron that was set into the pilaster concurrent with the in place concrete pour. The hinges were installed prior to the brick work and were "blocked out" so they would be flush with the masonry. The Dorene 1 h.p. motors were mechanically staggered by altering the arm lengths so we could keep the gap between the two leafs at 5/8", this technique allows one leaf to open slightly before the other and keeps them from "crashing" into eachother.

We also did all the exterior railings, wood gates and aluminum trellising at this site I'll post these at a later date.

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Bel Air Sculpture

Ferrous metal sculptue with 2-tone finish done for one of our Bel-Air clients.

Million Air

Here are some photos of the gate and fence at the exterior of the Million Air project which is near it's completion. These exterior gates which lead to the tarmac or Area of Operations

(AOA) weighed about 1800 lbs each leaf and had to open at a minimum of 14" per second using conventional motors. The structure was actually engineered for stopping a fully loaded full truck from making it more than 10' onto the tarmac if it were to crash the gates. The signs were designed in collaboration between myself and the owners son and were fabricated from 3 layers of brushed aluminum, the black areas were anodized. Tricky part was getting 2 signs on one double swing gate without them crashing. Also done at Million Air was the interior of the FBO building which was all stainless steel and glass. I'll post photos of those in near future.

Till then....

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Interior Stair Railings Bel Air

This Railing project was done for Interior Designer Frank Pannino & Associates

and the Architects at Hablinski Manion. The construction company was Winters-Schram

Associates. I worked closely with Frank on this project as the design was developing as construction reached the stage where the railing could be installed, the stair case being the first thing seen when the house was entered.

The top railing/hand grab was fabricated from bronze and was made seamless by means of

making our own bronze brazing rods so their was no discoloration at the seems, it then received a #4 satin finish and was waxed.

The metal work below the top rail was fabricated from iron and hand forged, a catalog casting put on every other picket. This particular owner wanted the railings "Old School" with no welds showing so the entire assembly was drilled, tapped and screwed together.

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