New Americana Collection at Guildmaster

One of the trends we're seeing a lot and we think you will see a lot of also is a return to America. Whether it's made in America or the return to an American look, many manufactures are doing that. My next guest is an American design icon talking about his new collection at Guildmaster. Here At Guildmaster I've explored a new adventure I called New America Coming Home and it's very much, if you remember I've started my career with American Country Collection, which was in the early 80's and I've felt like with the crisis that's going on in our culture now and our youth not even doing pledge of allegiance or anything to America. I thought it was a time to relook at our culture, restudy the traditional values, but in a very new contemporized way. Even though I used a lot of the historical pieces, but they're not historical, they're a new version of an American look. I've done four groupings in this collection. One I call American Traditional which this Philadelphia hutch is an example of it. Its mahogany, its leaded glass, its very classic. It can go into any traditional southern home or a home in Philadelphia or out on Long Island. You know a person who loves that darker finish. And then the second grouping is I call American Vintage. I've been known for vintage in the last few years and it's taking the historical natural palate and interpreting it in a very new way. We developed a finish called American limestone and it has a grayish tense to it like limestone and I accented it with a, what I call the American garden finish which is a crackle. And then we all love the lodge feeling with lake and mountain homes, particularly here in the Carolinas and I use what I call a River Rock finish which is like a green shutter and accented it with a mustard finish which is reminiscent of the country pine that we did, you know, in the early days of American Country. It nestles right in to those homes, but it also, we were talking this afternoon, it's very wonderful for the South West look too. And then the last of the looks I call American Garden which is the most cleaned up contemporized finish. It's a distressed finish too, it's crackled, white and it's used as an accent with the limestone. What I've done with this collection I've layered all these finishes so they layer in with the Guildmaster previous collections and it just becomes fun to put the elements of the New American Collection with the classic Guildmaster collections.

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• blip.tv

[thelynndean]

I had the pleasure of seeing this Raymond Waites Guildmaster Collections at market.

Wonderful... hard to capture the energy in a video.

I especially love dthe New American Collection... the way Mr waites used the flags was very special!

[thelynndean]

I had the pleasure of seeing this Raymond Waites Guildmaster Collections at market.

Wonderful... hard to capture the energy in a video.

I especially love dthe New American Collection... the flags were great!