HUDSON, N.Y. — A boutique sale of garden ornaments was sold on April 8 at Stair, led by a $46,080 result for a wrought iron garden gate designed by William Adams Delano (1874-1960) for his home in Syosset, N.Y. After returning from Paris, Delano formed Delano & Aldrich with Chester Holmes Aldrich in 1903. The auction house wrote, “Delano’s work was far ranging including designing homes for Otto Kahn; Kykuit, the Rockefeller family house in Tarrytown, N.Y.; academic buildings at Yale; the Union Club in N.Y.; the American Embassy in Paris and airline terminals at La Guardia and Miami airports; and Epinal the American cemetery in France, to name a few.”

The gate featured images of garden tools, including a shovel, pitchfork and trowel with sprawling wrought designs behind them. The gate was illustrated in Chester B. Price’s 1924 Portraits of Ten Country Houses designed by Delano & Aldrich.

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