Here you can get inspired with me through great finds in antique shops, learn tips for custom finishes, and hear about new pieces before they hit the market! tell me more...
Visit the Amy Howard Collection to peruse our hand-crafted reproductions of 18th and 19th century French and Italian furniture.
chinoiserie
Chinoiserie (a French term) was used during the 17th Century to reflect Chinese artistic influences. Chinoiserie’s use of fanciful imagery of an imaginary China to depict what peasant life might have been like. From the Renaissance to the 18th Century, Western designers have attempted to imitate the look of Chinese porcelain and the use of lacquer like materials and decoration onto furniture.
madeleine bergeres
Over the years I have noticed that a lot of upholstery manufacturers are making their pieces larger and larger in scale. I have always wanted my designs to stay true to the original designs of the period in which they were interpreting.
fragments made into lighting
I love taking beautiful things out of context and finding new ways to use them. I found these wood fragments at an antique shop and thought they were fabulous. I wanted to preserve their aged beauty, so I made a mold of the original wood fragments and used the duplicates for my experimentation.
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