Period Pieces

Notting Hill Period Pieces Knobs and Pulls

Period Pieces groups Notting Hill Hardware's most historically styled designs: Delaney's Rose, Prairie Tulips, and Horse Chestnut, each rooted in Arts and Crafts pattern work instead of the plainer nature-themed designs elsewhere in the catalog. It's the collection to start with if you're restoring or matching a Craftsman-era kitchen.

What sets these designs apart from the other lines

Two things separate Period Pieces from Notting Hill's other collections. First, several pieces mix materials: Horse Chestnut is a wood knob with a fine solid pewter insert rather than pewter alone, giving it more warmth and weight than an all-metal knob. Second, color plays a bigger role. Delaney's Rose comes with a painted blue or yellow accent, and Prairie Tulips is offered in a spring-green tint, both departures from the mostly monochrome pewter that dominates the rest of Notting Hill's catalog.

Hardware beyond knobs and pulls

This collection also includes a Dragonfly hinge plate, a reminder that Period Pieces covers more territory than knobs and pulls alone. Hinge plates dress up the visible hinge hardware on inset cabinet doors, a detail most modern cabinet lines skip entirely. If your kitchen has exposed hinges, it's worth checking whether a matching plate is offered here before you order knobs by themselves.

Fitting Period Pieces into a Craftsman kitchen

Quartersawn oak, mission-style cabinetry, and any kitchen with existing Arts and Crafts trim are the strongest matches here. The wood-and-pewter construction on pieces like Horse Chestnut echoes the mixed materials common in original Craftsman-era hardware, which is a big reason this line reads as more period-correct than Notting Hill's other nature-themed knobs.

Choosing between the three main designs

Delaney's Rose reads the most floral and formal of the three, Prairie Tulips leans more geometric with its repeated tulip band, and Horse Chestnut is the most textural thanks to the wood-and-pewter build. A kitchen combining knobs and pulls from this collection tends to look most cohesive sticking to one of the three designs rather than mixing all three across one bank of cabinets.