Design Inspiration Scrapbook

 For over a decade, we have been closely following interior design and architecture magazines to see what the hottest styles are. As soon as we see a photos of iron stair railings with a modern mono-stringer staircase design, we tear it out and add it to our inspiration folder. The wrought iron design inspiration folder…

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Design Guide 2024

Introducing the Compass Design Guide 2024! Your one stop shop that provides over 250 pages of exceptional ironwork for architects, designers, and clients to pull inspiration from. This guide helps assist in the design selection process. It also provides thought leadership in Iron gates, balcony railings, property fences, and custom stairs for the design community.…

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Juliet Balcony

A previous client in southeastern PA had built a structure to house his automotive collection. In the top story of this structure he desired to build a “man cave” or area to hang out, host parties, relax and unwind. The design vision was to have double doors open out to a Juliet balcony. That is…

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French Romeo and Juliet?

Shakespeare created his infamous Romeo and Juliet play hundreds of years ago. It portrayed a boy and girl from feuding families that fell in love with each other. Their relationship centered around a pseudo-balcony or window. Hence the name Juliet balcony or Romeo balcony came about. So, Shakespeare has inspired many Romeo and Juliet balconies…

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Luxury Railings

A developer in New York City (Naftali Group) was building a high-rise apartment building in the classical architectural style in beautiful Manhattan. As part of the architectural design there were some outdoor terraces that needed luxury railings. The architect had created some very interesting balcony railing designs. These designs featured an interweave and a greek…

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French Balcony Design

A New York architect was designing an upscale residence that required intricate custom french balcony rails and porch railings. The desired Iron railing design was specified by the architect but after a bit of review, design changes were made to uphold the 4” code rule. French Balcony Rails The initial french railing design had elongated…

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