I love furniture (be it old or new) as long as it is unique and has good lines. New furniture, however, rarely comes with great hardware. Most of the knobs are fugly (flimsy and ugly!) and don’t necessarily match the piece they are paired with.
Over the years I have acquired a large collection of old knobs and pulls. Be it glass or brass, antique knobs and pulls were given as much time and attention to detail as the pieces of furniture they adorned. All of the furniture in my house has been re-knobbed (I am taking credit for coining this phrase!). I have replaced new, plastic (flimsy!) knobs with glass knobs and, in some cases, new knobs have been replaced with newer knobs made to look old because it is difficult to find a complete “set” of matching knobs.
I recently bought a table from World Market for my foyer, painted it white and added antique glass knobs. When the sun comes through the front door at the end of the day – it’s magical. The knobs set off prisms of colors. It’s very hard to photograph anything in the sun but this angle shows how the sun reflects off this knob.
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