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E.J. Victor Introduces
Calais: Warm, Distressed Oak;
Designed with Versatility, Crafted
with Quality.
 Complimenting its successful collections of
exquisite formal and contemporary wood furniture, and its imported
English-styled
groupings, E.J. Victor introduces Calais, an assortment of casual
Oak bedroom and dining room furniture.
Calais is designed to meet
the continuing demand for quality, uniquely-styled case goods
with a warm, relaxed feel, said E.J.
Victor President John Jokinen. It is the first collection requiring
E.J. Victor's manufacturing craftsmen to apply a finish
using significant distressing and hand-waxing. Historically,
they have completed manufacturing cycles with glazing and high-sheen
polish typically associated with the company's formal furniture.
"This
is a new step for us," he said. "We still
do the sheen, the glazing and the polishing of veneers but we
decided
to introduce more casual look."
"Oak generally lends itself to
a casual product," he said. "And
we wanted a warm, heavily distressed, waxed finish and have something
that is easy to live with, is easy to clean and is durable, yet
is elegant, soft to the touch."
As in all of the Morganton,
North Carolina based upholstery and wood manufacturer's
collections, Calais broadcasts the relentless detail in design,
sophistication of finish and attention to quality that has enabled
E. J. Victor to establish itself as a premier crafter of outstanding
wood and upholstered furniture.
Styled in a Continental blend
of English and French designs, with inspirations from Louis XV,
Louis XVI and 17th-Century English
styles, Calais is crafted in pin-knotty oak veneers with ash
solids and veneers. It is a short collection, what with two beds,
two armoires, one dining table, a sideboard and 2 styles of chairs.
The bed is one of the more versatile items in
Calais. It is configured with either a full wood-framed canopy
atop four mammoth 92-inch
tall angular posts, or without a canopy and half-height posts
at the footboard. It also is available as a headboard only.
Like
other pieces in the collection, the headboard features Calais' signature
design in which a singular, prominent oak knot accentuates centers
of oak panels framed by a parquet-pattern of quarter-cut ash.
It requires painstaking selection of appropriate and approved
veneers to obtain and match this design element throughout the
collection.
One of the armoires measures 64"x88";
the other 49"x
82". Both offer adjustable shelves behind a pair of doors
(featuring the signature parquet-pattern veneering) and four
drawers.
The dining table is as elegant as the beds are
massive. Carrying a simple French style with shaped legs and
aprons, the
85 ?" x
46" table (with parquet top) accepts two 26" leaves.
"
One of the nice things about this collection is that it blends
in finish-wise with our entire English County collection," Jokinen
said, referring to the firm's very successful lineup of
imported English antique reproductions.
Edward W. Phifer, III,
Joseph B. Manderson and John Victor Jokinen founded E.J. Victor
in 1990 in Morganton, NC. Together, the founders
created a corporate culture that maintains an unwavering commitment
to preserving time-honored, local construction methods used
to create exquisite furniture for the home. |
