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Welcome to Rituals... The Lodge and Ranch style specialists. Established in 1987, Rituals is the most unique showroom of its kind in Los Angeles, featuring antique and reproduction furnishings and accessories including architectural items such as lighting, doors and hand-forged iron hardware. Adirondack From humble hunting shacks, crudely furnished with scavenged forest materials, to the stunning Adirondack 'Great Camps', built and designed in the early 20th century for the likes of the Rockefellers and Vanderbilts,a Adirondack style is an ingeniously indigenous part of American rustic culture. Arts & Crafts This movement began in England in the late 1800s as a rebellion against industrialization. Spare, clean lines and sturdy form were considered a relief from the excess and artifice of the Victorian era. The movement took hold in the United States, spreading from East Aurora, New York, to Pasadena, California, inspiring architects and designers through the 1930s. Over the past two decades this movement has experienced a resurgence in popularity which encompasses a wide variety of expressions, from houses to furnishings, pottery and lighting. Black Forest Originating in Switzerland, this distinctive European style is based on hand-carved hard woods in rich, dark finishes with images ranging from organic foliage to the various animals found in the forest. All had faux carving in common. Clocks, benches, hall trees, chairs and other furnishings were made from the mid 1800s to present day. Monterey Monterey style is a direct result of the Spanish Revival movement and the romantic lure of Monterey, Mexico. Developed by the Mason Manufacturing Company in Los Angeles and distributed exclusively through Barker Brothers, starting in 1929, within a year there were 24 pieces in their Monterey Furniture line. Many other manufacturers such as Coronado, Imperial, Rancho and Fiesta were thus inspired to create similar lines through the mid 1940s. Spanish Revival The Spanish Revival movement was ushered in by the opening of the Panama Canal in 1915, and highlighted by the Panama-Pacific Inter- national Exposition held in California. Spanish Revival is really a blend of styles derived from the Mediterranean world. Designers were inspired by a number of sources: the adobe and colonial buildings of Monterey, California; Moorish architecture; medieval Spanish and Italian style; ultra-Baroque design elements of colonial Spain and Portugal; rural forms from Andalusia; Italian Romanesque and Renaissance revival elements; and southwest Hopi and Pueblo Indian adobes. Tramp Art Tramp art, also known as wanderer, or Hobo art, originated as notched, layered wood from found objects. An artist needed only a pocket knife and a few cigar boxes to create their masterpiece. Since the late 1800s this art form has had its ebbs and flows but has now found its way into many artisans‘ work, often mixed with folk art and Adirondack twig and branch styling. The early examples are highly sought after by collectors, and the contemporary works will be tomorrow's collectibles. Western Images of the Old West, the form and function of durability. Where all the elements were used to construct furniture and accessories. Leather, rawhide, rough hewnwood, or iron, things built to last... like the Cowboys, Indians and Plainsmen of the past, with a spark of campfire whimsy thrown in. |
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AdirondakArts & CraftsBlack ForestMontereySpanish Revival
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