Arts & Crafts

Notting Hill Arts and Crafts knobs

This line draws its motifs from the Prairie School and American Arts and Crafts movement instead of a generic animal or floral theme: Prairie Tulips, Monarch Butterflies, a dragonfly, and a bird design called Crane Dance, which turns up here more than every other single design combined. Crane Dance alone spans a plain pewter knob, a pull, and four backing woods, running from a reddish cherry tone to a deeper walnut, with maple and a plain natural finish rounding out the lighter end. Six pieces total once every motif and finish variation is counted on its own.

What reads as Arts and Crafts instead of storybook

Prairie Tulips and Crane Dance simplify their subjects into repeating, almost architectural shapes rather than depicting them literally. Monarch Butterflies and dragonfly sit closer to naturalistic than the tulip pattern does, setting this listing apart from Notting Hill's more storybook-leaning animal lines even while sharing an identical pewter casting process.

Bronze against pewter on Prairie Tulips

Prairie Tulips stands alone here as the one motif offered in solid bronze instead of pewter. Bronze carries a warmer, slightly yellow cast next to pewter's cooler gray, darkening with handling in a way pewter simply doesn't. Picking between the pewter pull and the bronze knob typically hinges on which metal tone a kitchen's faucets and light fixtures already lean toward, more than on the tulip pattern itself. A quick side-by-side sample usually settles the question faster than photos ever could.

Crane Dance's four wood options

Crane Dance's four backings run from a reddish cherry tone through a deeper walnut, up to a lighter maple and a plain natural finish — worth choosing to echo existing cabinetry instead of judging the bird pattern alone, since an identical crane warms up noticeably against cherry compared with the lighter woods.