Holborn Etagere

Description

London’s parks offer green oases within iron fences. Our Holborn collection is inspired by a design for an iron fence in a rare architectural book–originally published in the High Holborn area of London–in Colonial Williamsburg’s library. Such neoclassic circular motifs–inspired by designs used in Roman interiors discovered at the excavations of Pompeii and Herculaneum–were popular in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. We’ve translated the designs iron circles into mother-of-pearl inlay, and its iron spikes to nickel handles for an update on designs popularized by tastemakers such as Robert Adam, Thomas Sheraton, and Thomas Jefferson.