Life's too short for cheap hardware
Schaub and Company, the Michigan-based purveyor of amazing hardware , just released some new collections and one of them features a new material for them, art glass. The collection is called Ice and here it is.
Its companion collection, Fire, follows here.
I wax rhapsodic about Schaub's offerings from time to time and it's a pleasure to be one of their resellers. Schaub and Company has a long history of producing unusually beautiful hardware. So much so that they are alone at the top of their field when it comes to knobs and handles designed and produced with such care.
What drew me to them originally was this series, Branches, that uses Swarovki crystals and black pearls. Any company who can produce this can produce anything so far as I'm concerned.
From Branches, Schaub and Company have moved on to revive the dying art of semi-precious inlays. Check out the pen shell in these crabs from the Neptune Designs collection.
People refer to decorative hardware as House Jewelry and Schaub's taken that to heart with their Heirloom Treasures collection.
They're now not kidding.
So when Schaub and Company releases something like this Northport collection, I pay attention.
Good hardware should last a lifetime and its use isn't limited to your kitchen cabinets. I can see those Heirloom Treasures on an armoire or a buffet and my dresser is screaming for that Northport square knob in Polished Nickel.
So remember two things when it's time to think about this stuff. Remember to spend some time with Schaub and Company but above all, remember that life's too short for cheap hardware.