The Founders Collection

The Georgian vocabulary, cast in solid brass.

In 1740, Thomas Turner opened a brass house on Coleshill Street, in the centre of Birmingham. It was the first of its kind in the town. Within a generation, the city's metalworkers — who had previously bought their brass in from Bristol — were casting their own. Turner's nine furnaces, fed by Warwickshire coal, made Birmingham a brass city.

The Founders Collection is named for that beginning, and drawn from the period that followed. The Georgian cabinet vocabulary is precise: a fluted melon-form knob, often mounted on a four-pointed backplate to spread the load across thin period drawer fronts. The cup pull has a deep, simple curve. The drop handle is unembellished, weighted at the ends. The Founders pieces follow that vocabulary closely.

Three pieces — knob, cup pull, drop handle — sand-cast in solid Birmingham brass and hand-finished. Three finishes: Polished Unlacquered Brass (left bare, to age with the house), Aged Brass (a controlled patina applied at the workshop), and Satin Brass (brushed and lacquered for high-use kitchens). Every piece carries the chased Tudor rose as the maker's mark.

The Founders Collection is the first of three Winfield & Turner vocabularies. Guild follows in the Arts & Crafts tradition of 1890. Forge closes the trilogy in the industrial vocabulary of the 20th century.

Held in stock at the workshop. Posted from Birmingham.