These beautiful pair of doors are called
The Lafayette Hill Entry Doors
Each door is 31-3/8" x 80" x 1-3/4"
They are Vertical Ribbon Grain Mahogany
with bookmatched Curly Redwood panels
The glass is beveled Seedy Reamy

Here are the pair of completed doors

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They will have an astragal between them

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the panels are bookmatched Curly Redwood

Look at the beautiful grain in the "heal" of each door


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Here is a view of the glass. It has a 1" bevel and is insulated and tempered

The Dentil shelf has Rosewood pins


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This beautiful Mahogany came from
Mount Storm Hardwoods
in Windsor, California

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Here is an image of reflections through the glass



Below is the provenance of the making of these beautiful doors

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Here is scanned end cuts of the solid Mahogany

Please notice that it is All vertical grain


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vertical sawn wood is the most stable for of lumber

vertical grain lumber prevents warpage

and cracking

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This beautiful Mahogany came from
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in Windsor, California


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