Notting Hill Period Pieces Collection

Notting Hill Period Pieces Collection cabinet hardware

The Period Pieces Collection is Notting Hill's Arts and Crafts line, casting prairie tulips, horse chestnut, dragonflies, and Delaney's Rose into knobs, pulls, and a matching hinge plate. It draws on early-twentieth-century decorative motifs for period homes.

What identifies the Period Pieces look

Pieces are stylized nature castings in the Craftsman tradition: a prairie tulip, a horse chestnut leaf, a dragonfly hinge plate, Delaney's Rose with tinted accents. The forms are simplified and graphic rather than realistic, true to the era they reference. Some knobs are set over wood backgrounds, and several pulls carry hand-applied color in blue, yellow, rose, and coral. Finishes include antique brass and pewter, antique copper, brilliant pewter, and dark brass, several with painted detailing.

Buying considerations

Period Pieces suits Craftsman, bungalow, and period-restoration kitchens and baths where the hardware should match the home's era rather than fight it. The matching dragonfly hinge plate lets the motif extend onto the cabinet hinge, not just the pull, a detail most lines skip. Hand-tinted versions add muted color, while plain antique pewter keeps the look restrained. Stylized castings hold detail best in the darker antique finishes, which suit the Arts and Crafts palette. Place the wood-backed knobs where the warm base reads against painted doors, and keep the busiest pieces to feature cabinets. The horse chestnut wood knobs come in several wood tones, so the base can match the cabinet species rather than contrast with it. Repeating one motif, such as the prairie tulip, across doors and drawers keeps a period kitchen reading as a restoration rather than a sampler.

Related Notting Hill collections

For related period and nature lines, see the Florid Leaves and Classic collections, or browse the full Notting Hill brand page.