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daddy of all reproduction programs, only since
1990. Williamsburg also licenses D.R Dimes
of New Hampshire. Working in the bench tra-
dition, in which each reproduction is made by
a single cabinetmaker who follows the piece
from start to finish, Dimes produces informal
pieces of pine and maple. Best known are its
adaptations of Windsor chairs and benches,
and an 18th-century bedside table of curly
maple, bird's-eye maple, and veneer banding.
Furniture from Baker's Historic Charleston
collection is definitely formal— Hepplewhite
tables, Queen Anne chairs, Chippendale so-
fas, plus elaborately designed mahogany
poster beds, secretaries, sideboards, and
chests from the 18th and early 19th century.
Two of the newest pieces are a Grecian couch,
circa 1815, and a folding-top card table with
tiny bumblebee inlays from about 1800.
The Historic Natchez Foundation gives its
licensee, Emredon Furniture of Morganton,
North Carolina, the right to reproduce furni-
ture from about 30 antebellum town homes
and plantation houses in or surrounding
Natchez, Mississippi. All the furniture dates
to the 18th and early 19th century and is still
in use, sometimes by descendants of the orig-
inal owners.
The elegant and romantic Shield town-
house bed is a collection standout. Repro-
duced from the English Chippendale-
Hepplewhite original made in the late 1700s,
the bed is an elaborately carved four-poster
whose canopy design boasts pierced Goth-
ic-arch crests and Prince of Wales plumes.
Sutton Fine Furniture, a division of Cen-
tury Furniture Industries, makes a small line
of furniture for the Smithsonian Institution in
Washington, D.C. Among its pieces are a Neo-
classical fall-front desk first crafted by Isaac
Vose and Sons, an elaborately carved Amer-
ican Empire sofa, a mahogany highboy
crowned with a basket-like finial of sculpted
fruit and flowers, and a china table made for
Mount Vernon in the mid-1750s.
While each piece of Smithsonian furniture
comes with a hang-tag that explains the his-
tory of the piece or the period, "the histori-
cal connection is the added kicker," says Lisa
Stevenson, director of product developing and
licensing for the Smithsonian. "Its the integrity
of the piece itself and how it will function in
today's homes that makes it sell." A copy of a
wingback chair owned by George Washing-
ton was dropped from the line because the
public just was not interested.