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Shadow Play Collection by Lexington Vienna Rectangular Collection by Jaipur Vienna Round Collection by Jaipur Viewpont Gathering Height Table Collection This catalog has no products. Hanks and more gallery collection Providing 30 plus years of selling top quality furniture at fair and reasonable prices, Colonial Interiors, Inc. offers traditional and colonial style as well as urban styles of furniture for dining rooms, bedrooms, kitchens, living rooms, and great rooms throughout the WV area. Our small family-owned furniture shop offers solid wood products made in West Virginia and America. We provide furnishings for those who appreciate the heritage of good workmanship and quality passed down by American craftsmen.The Colonial Style was born from the Union between that brought by settlers from their mother-country and native style of the colonized areas. In the contemporary decor, the American and Eastern one are the best known and most loved: many are the environments that can be decorated with reproductions of the typical furniture of the era of colonialism.
They can create elegant and exotic atmospheres, and make wood a major protagonist, Typical of this styles are four-poster beds, dressers and chests of drawers. Both styles are affected by the Anglo-Saxon taste and lines, albeit with significant differences due to local influences. The furniture in the American Colonial Style is simple, massive, solid, without unnecessary ornaments; modern reproductions though, have developed more refined, classic and squared-off lines. The wood is chosen among the species native to North America, such as oak, maple, oak, walnut, mahogany and cherry. The furniture in the Eastern Colonial Style is more harmonious and its functionality is subject to order and simplicity. The woods used are teak, rosewood and bamboo. Where friends and family draw closer and sharing a meal is just the start. Seating for two or party of 12, gather around a Thomasville table. Choose dining chairs that match or add another layer of luxury with a fully upholstered dining chair in a sumptuous fabric or leather.
Add needed storage or display space to your dining room, beautifully, with a sideboard or cabinet that complements your other dining furniture. Look at your dining room as a whole, incorporating tables and chairs and side pieces that match your needs as well as your personality. The following is a partial list of chair types, with internal or external cross-references about most of the chairs. Barrel chair, c. 1465, Raversijde, Belgium An example of Elijah's chair, used at Jewish circumcisions A reproduction Glastonbury chair in the Bishop's Palace, Wells High chair by Cosco, 1957 "Pop" (2005), A whimsical variation of a patio chair by the American industrial designer Brad AscalonThe American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. American Way Collection Bedroom Set Why buy one item at a time when you can get the entire set for a fraction of the price! This is the American Way Collection... Colorway Collection Dining Room
Dine in your own style with the many Tres Amigos options created just for your liking.These are our dining room collections…Vintage WindsorClassic WindsorWindsor ArmchairWindsor Dining ChairsWindsor SideChairs 5Windsor BraceGothic WindsorFurniture ChairsForwardWINDSOR CHAIR - A country chair, introduced in the late 18th century, and although largely made in Slough near Windsor, these chairs can be found in some quite distinct regional variations. Its principal distinguishing feature is that it's essentially a stool with a back on it.By Patricia Poore | Illustrations by Rob LeannaArchitectural historians often dismiss Colonial Revival as a nostalgic aberration rather than a style. Anything so popular eventually runs into embarrassing episodes, it’s true, but there is no denying that the Colonial Revival created the most significant and long-lasting decorating approach for American interiors. It is the underpinning for Traditional, ever-popular and not just for “colonials,” and the typical choice for dining rooms and bedrooms coast to coast.
Public interest in things Colonial dates to the 1876 Centennial, which occasioned patriotic sentiment and, among other things, focused attention on the rapid disappearance of original Colonial buildings. Architect Charles McKim and colleagues launched their seminal study tour of the old houses of New England. Their earnest photographing and sketching resulted in a “modern colonial style” of building: a studied vernacular of stained shingle walls, steep roofs, and classical ornament borrowed from Georgian buildings. The Colonial Revival collided with the contemporaneous English Queen Anne Revival in our American Shingle Style.This reproduction chair is the only Revival piece in this typical room. The rest is a mix; note the Moorish table and a Victorian side chair reupholstered in chintz. (All illustrations based on interior views after actual period photographs annotated by William Seale.)The Architecture As the Victorian era drew to a close, Americans looked to the architecture of the original Colonies for inspiration.
Vernacular traditions (chiefly English, but also Dutch and German) were thrown into the mix, and everywhere the decorative vocabulary was that of 18th-century classicism. This English Colonial Revival, which resulted in an architectural vocabulary that went national, was a movement with roots in 19th-century Boston and Philadelphia. The “revival” encompassed every sort of replica and free adaptation of styles from the colonial, Federal, and Greek Revival periods (i.e., ca. 1670–1845). Neoclassical and Federal-era elements decorated large houses that retained Victorian-era massing and big verandahs. These new houses were not replicas, nor were they intended to be. They were often larger than the originals, and not symmetrical. Greek columns, Roman pilasters, and Palladian windows were used to great effect in 1900, as they had been during the Georgian and Federal periods. Other details of real Colonial houses came back into vogue, including multi-light window sash, heavy shutters, hipped roofs, fanlights, Adamesque mantels, and graceful staircases with turned balusters.
The center hall plan returned. The Colonial Revival picked up steam with a return to classical motifs (pediments, columns) after the Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893; now classicism ruled architecture. Academically correct examples of Colonial Revival eventually replaced the transitional, neo-Colonial forms of the early years. Although they could not be mistaken for a Colonial-era original, many houses built from 1910 through the 1930s are more academically correct. Emphasis was placed not only on classical details but also the rectilinear, symmetrical forms of the 18th century. During the 1910s, 1920s, and 1930s, “Colonial” was the preferred vocabulary for both mansions and spec-built houses. Colonial Revival reappeared after the Second World War, along with both formal classical and informal “Early American” interiors. Familiar variants include the Saltbox and Cape Cod house forms; the Elizabethan garrison colonial with its peaked roof and second-floor jetty; symmetrical Georgian and Federal revival houses;
even “colonial bungalows” and neoclassical American Foursquares. Furthermore, Arts & Crafts and Colonial motifs often appeared together in a generation of houses. Taking license: The settle’s Chippendale feet and arms and giant broken pediment show the tendency of revivals to exaggerate appealing features of the originals to the point of distortion!The Interiors If you grew up in the United States, or have a penchant for Hollywood movies, you know the alphabet soup of Colonial Revival: balusters, brass lamps, chintz, chandeliers, Chippendale pulls, Federal mantels, florals and stripes, four-poster beds, grandfather clocks, highboys, hooked rugs, ivory paint, netted canopies, nostalgic prints, Palladian windows, porch columns, Queen Anne dining chairs, shutters, sidelights, spinning wheels, and Windsor chairs. The transitional interiors of the first wave often mixed iconographic items such as a Windsor chair with English art wallpaper by William Morris and the odd piece of Arts & Crafts furniture.
The familiar stage-set Colonial appeared early on: the rocker, the dressing table set with an antique shaving glass. Historian John Burrows has suggested the name Old Colony Style for the nostalgic look of the early revival, separating it from academic Colonial Revival and later Early American styles. This period marked the end of the division of walls into dado, fill, and frieze. Now there might be a dado or a frieze but rarely both. Wainscoting was still used in halls, dining rooms, and libraries. Rooms were stripped of clutter and a few antiques well placed; one paint color and one fabric pattern created simplicity. Chippendale-style chairs and a neoclassical mirror were brought in. Wallpaper was lighter, with florals on pale backgrounds and stripes most popular. Ceilings were usually unornamented. Furniture was rarely all of a style or era. Grand Rapids (Golden Oak) furniture was stripped of applied ornament and painted. Styles of the 18th and early 19th centuries—Chippendale, Queen Anne, William and Mary, Sheraton, Hepplewhite, and American Empire—were revived.
Some pieces were fairly accurate reproductions, others a pastiche. A Pilgrim sub-style (using primitive and post-medieval forms) appeared in the 1890s and was popular for informal use into the 1930s. Colonial Revival interior design surpassed even the French Louis styles, prior to the First World War. For most people, it was an affectation more than it was historically accurate; only the wealthy clients of decorators got actual period rooms. Even die-hard Revivalists were not that interested in accuracy; after all, they were borrowing motifs from a narrow field of the richest Colonial citizens. The Revival imitated fine houses; rustic objects may have been placed as icons, but in general, that which was poor, primitive, or dirty about real Colonial life was ignored. Federal Revival houses dressed in delicate ceiling medallions, classical cornices, and Adam-style mantels would have walls painted in light blues or apricots. Federal-era reproduction wallpapers were widely available. Decorator Elsie de Wolfe made chintz—colorful glazed cotton, often in large floral patterns—a standard for Colonial Revival interiors.
Ruffles were for summer cottages and bedrooms; fitted valances in chintz or brocade, she said, were more suitable in the drawing room. Since the 1990s, the strong resurgence in building new classical architecture once again has brought back traditional rooms, most of them rendered with an academic formality.PILGRIM ROOMS The fashion for primitive rooms with hutches and braid rugs began in the 1890s and was resuscitated as a postwar Early American style. This one comes from a 1919 book that showed Tudor, French, and Colonial Revival decorating schemes, most of them more formal than this “colonial hearth room.” DINING ROOMS Throughout the 20th century, it was typical to furnish the dining room in traditional Colonial Revival style, even when the parlor was Craftsman and the library Tudor. This quintessential 1916 room is at Little Holme, built in 1916 by architect Harry B. Little for his own family in Concord, Mass. BEDROOMS Little Holme was featured in House Beautiful in 1917: This period photo shows the preference for “early American” bedrooms that has proven so enduring.
Note the high-post beds with testers (now hung with a simple canopy or valance), the brass candle-lamps, and the sweet wallpaper. Your BookshelfThe Colonial Revival House by Richard Guy Wilson: Abrams, 2004. This is a one-of- a-kind, smart, beautiful volume that includes 275 photos for inspiration. Besides tracing Colonial Revival, the book shows how the early movement overlapped, in its concerns and motifs, with the American Shingle Style.Colonial Revival Maine by Kevin Murphy: Princeton Architectural Press, 2005. A regional take on the development of a new “colonial style” (i.e., the Shingle Style). Drawings and archival photos of interiors (very helpful!) are accompanied by exterior views and new photos. The Houses of McKim, Mead & White by Samuel G. White: Universe, 2004. The pre-eminent firm is best known for their Beaux Arts classicism and their public commissions. Seminal, too, were the early houses of MMW and especially those of Stanford White, built for wealthy Easterners during the Gilded Age.