Inspire Me!: vanCollier Designs

Thursday, February 24, 2011

vanCollier Designs

It has been some time since I have updated you on our recently showcased designers. Hard at work, Beth and Chris Collier have launched a line of home accessories that is in production at present. Inspired predominantly from the larger-than-life Ginkgo tree in the courtyard of their historical residential development in Washington, NC, each piece takes what nature did to perfection and makes it permanent in the form of gilded sconces, coffee tables and lighting. As spring tempts us from just around the corner and the trees all about us seem eager to burst forth in their own leafy color, there could not be a more opportune time to showcase vanCollier's designs.

Most of these items are in the store, so please come view them in person. They are simply sublime.

And stay tuned for more photos of vanCollier's recent interior design projects.

Enjoy.

Gilded coffee table. The legs were cast from Ginkgo limbs in the winter with no foliage.

Ginkgo leaf sconce.

Ginkgo leaf martini table.

About vanCollier

Established in 1995, vanCollier began as an antique and interior design firm. With backgrounds in art history, fine arts and decorative arts, vanCollier marries old world elegance with contemporary design. The married couple behind this firm-on-the-rise is Beth and Chris Collier, who work together on their wide range of projects domestically and abroad. Their philosophy: Use traditional influences to create sophisticated and approachable environments. Says Beth, "Rooms should be masculine and feminine while conveying both traditional and eccentric details."

To contact Beth, email her at vancollier@suddenlink.net

About Eatman's Carpets and Interiors

Eatman's Carpets and Interiors is my family's business. My grandfather, Bill Eatman, opened its doors in 1957 in Downtown Raleigh as a design studio/upholstery workroom selling high end fabrics, wool carpeting, and wallpaper. My father, Woody Eatman, the current president, followed in his father's footsteps joining the family business after school. Years later, with her Design degree in hand, my mother was hired as a designer by Eatman's. My Dad and my Mom fell in love and married. Over time, Eatman's became a innovator in the world of flooring creating computer systems specifically for the industry as well as adding to the business a supply and installation divisions. Fast-forwarding through my arrival and my sister's, the business is now a hybrid of the past and the present. We continue to be a leading supplier of carpets residentially and commercially, and we continue to expand into the world of interior design with new fabric, furniture and lighting lines. But more than all that, it is where our family hangs its hat. It is, in every sense of the word, a labor of great love.