DETAIL OF WARSAW TENEMENT HOUSES IN THE SECOND HALF OF THE 19TH CENTURY AND THE BEGINNING OF THE 20TH
CENTURY: GATES
JADWIGA ROGUSKA
Gates of tenements and houses were one of the most individual and original products of Warsaw artistic manufacturing in the second half of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century. They represented the status of artistic detail to the highest extent amongst other types of detail. According to the material they were made from, we can distinguish wooden gates, wooden gates with metal bars, and metal ones. In reference to construction we can divide gates into two-wings, two-wings with a transom window, and three-wings. All of them had wickets for pedestrian traffic within one of the wings. The stylish colour of the gates matched the stylish colour of the facade; this principle was not strictly obeyed. During reconstructions and replacements of worn details, old tenement houses obtained new gates in the present stylish colour. The stylish evolution of gates followed the general style trends.