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The Kittinger Company is an American maker of traditional colonial reproduction furniture. The Kittinger Company traces its origins to a paper manufacturer in Buffalo, New York founded in 1866 and trading as Thompson, Colie & Co. . The production of upholstered furniture by George and Oliver Colie, trading as Colie & Son, followed in 1870, producing largely hand-made furniture for the Buffalo and New York City area. The first factory, specializing at first in frames for upholstery, was erected in 1885 in Buffalo.〔(''Design Journal'':Kittinger Furniture, Inc. )〕 Advertising in 1904,〔 ''The American Cabinet Maker and Upholsterer'' October 15, 1904, p. .〕 Colie and Son illustrated one of their armchairs, that showed they were still making furniture in the free Colonial Revival style for their "snappy, original styles in Parlor Suites, Odd Chairs, Divans, Easy Chairs etc." Reproductions more closely based on original American 18th-century pieces of furniture would come to characterize the firm's production under George Colie's son-in-law〔(Kittinger Furniture Company: history )〕 Irvine J. Kittinger, who had been working for the firm, and his brother Ralph; they purchased the company from the Colie family, and in 1913 changed the company's name to the Kittinger Company. Under Kittinger’s control, the company’s primary focus was to produce the highest quality furniture possible. By 1929 the company was grossing $1,000,000 annually.〔(''Design Journal'': Kittinger Furniture, Inc. )〕 ==Colonial Williamsburg Foundation== In 1937 the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation selected the Kittinger Company as the exclusive licensed reproducer of furniture at Colonial Williamsburg Kittinger reproductions were sold through the Williamsburg Reproductions program, the Craft House, established that year.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 work = Americana Furniture and Interiors )〕 Visitors to Colonial Williamsburg could see Kittinger cabinetmakers in period costume at work in the workshop established in the Ayscough house.〔( History of Colonial Williamsburg Kittinger Company reproductions, 1937-1990 )〕 Williamsburg reproductions came with a bill of sale detailing the history of the original piece and were branded with the Williamsburg stamp. Other reproductions by Kittinger were labeled with a letterpress label in the 18th-century style. Like their rivals Biggs Furniture of Richmond, Virginia, Kittinger served an upper middle class market in search of mostly mahogany, reproduction furniture with dovetailed oak drawer lining, frame-and-panel backs and other mark of quality comparable to the originals, in the Queen Anne, Chippendale and Hepplewhite styles. In 1990 the license expired and was granted to Baker Furniture Company. Apart from the Williamsburg reproductions other series were marketed under names evoking the colonial period: Richmond hill Collection,〔Branded "Richmond Hill Collection by Kittinger" within a cartouche.〕 Old Dominion Collection〔In collaboration with Biggs, Richmond, which became a subsidiary of Kittinger.〕 and the like. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Kittinger Company」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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