Large Fireplaces

We had a customer ring up today and asked if we can supply a very large fireplace for his hall, in a Georgian style with a bit of arts and crafts design in it!! well this large fireplace might just fit the bill. Our Large Adam fireplace mantel is the largest fireplace we make at Victorian fireplaces in its standard form it is 60 or 66 inches wide but can be made to suit your own specifications. Truly a stunning very large fireplace all carvings are in solid pine and hand carved, no MDF or veneer here. A real chimney piece.

Large fireplace

Large Adam pine mantel

Large adam pine mantel inspired by Robert Adam Designs

Adam style fireplaces

The Adam style (or Adamesque) is a style of neoclassical architecture and design as practised by Scottish architect Robert Adam (1728- 1792) and his brothers. A book of engraved designs made the “Adam” repertory available throughout Europe. A parallel development of this early phase of neoclassical design is French “Louis XVI style.

Robert Adam’s main rivals were James Wyatt, whose many designs for furniture were less known outside the wide circle of his patrons, because he never published a book of engravings, and Sir William Chambers, who designed fewer furnishings for his interiors, preferring to work with able cabinet-makers like John Linnell, Thomas Chippendale and Ince and Mayhew. So many able designers were working in this style in London from ca. 1770, that the style is currently more usually termed Early Neoclassical.

Georgian fireplaces.

Best selling fireplace – W/E 19/04/09

Chimney Pieces

Large fireplaces

Belfast fireplace

The Belfast fireplace again winner for sale’s last week. All the Belfast sets have been sold with oak mantels Roundel mantel and Reeded mantel both these mantels are at 54 inches but as always with Knapp woodworking mantels they can be made to any size you require. Shown with  the Bedford mantel in solid oak, a beautiful fireplace and as always suitable for solid fuel, gas and electric fires. The Belfast is best with mantels 54 inches wide or wider. We have The Belfast fireplace on display in our showroom, and takes pride of place in a very large mantel 68 inches wide a real Colossus.

Best selling fireplace – W/E 29/03/09

We had a draw this week with the fireplaces.

Large fireplaces

Joint favorites were the Belfast fireplace and the Dublin fireplace. The Belfast insert was bought with the Carved corbel mantel (54 inch top) in solid oak with Lavenham scarlet tiles, a great combination one of my all time favorites. The Dublin insert was bought with the reeded mantel in solid oak, all of them choose the Lt colour finish for the oak as the picture showes, two great looking fireplaces not seen any where else very exclusive.