Why brands from Schumacher to Little Greene are reviving 18th- and 19th-century prints and textiles for their latest collections.
In the 1920s, at the tail end of World War I, Dr. William Goodwin–then pastor of Virginia’s historic Bruton Parish Church–wrote to John D. Rockefeller, Jr. with a petition to restore his hometown of Colonial Williamsburg. Over the years, the former state capital had become a sleepy, tumbledown village, but Goodwin still saw in it a living representation of “truth and beauty,” where visitors could be “inspired and excited.
Perhaps the most intensive and revelatory of the Williamsburg collaborations has been its partnership with Benjamin Moore. Joining preservationists at Williamsburg, chemists at the paint company performed microscopic analysis on pinhead-sized samples to determine how various colors evolved over time, ultimately identifying 144 separate hues, all original to Colonial Williamsburg.
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