Kindel Grand Rapids Introduces The Jeffery Roberts Collection

Furniture World News Desk on 4/1/2018

Kindel Grand Rapids recently announced a new collection in collaboration with Grand Rapids designer, Jeffery Roberts. The Jeffery Roberts Collection will be introduced at the High Point Furniture Market on April 13, 2018.

For 30 years Jeffery Roberts has been creating custom furniture and in recent years he selected Kindel Grand Rapids to engineer and build his designs. Kindel Grand Rapids and Jeffery Roberts enjoyed a relationship that grew into collaboration on multiple levels: product design, color and finish exploration, and showroom design. For his eponymous collection, Jeffery has selected 12 furniture designs from his extensive body of work. Jeffery’s classically-trained, artist’s mind reads clearly in the Collection’s concept.

The Durant Cocktail Table features a base of four architectural columns that support a large 46 x 46-inch top. The solidity and heft of the base is contrasted by the uniquely quilted pattern of the Walnut Burl on the wide, framed table top. Bold design also defines the Grand Baluster Console Table with eight overscale, turned and sculpted legs revealing the designer’s penchant for form and structure. The table top is accented with three inserts of embossed leather. Jeffery is always mindful of details that reflect today’s lifestyle. Other pieces in the Collection include several lamp tables, the William Library Table with hair-on-hide top, the Bevel TV Chest, and the luxurious Eastern Sofa and Sydney Lounge Chair.

Rob Burch, CEO of Kindel Grand Rapids, states, “We love working with Jeffery because he brings a fresh take on classic design. Our ability to execute design is unsurpassed in the industry, and Jeffery recognizes that Kindel Grand Rapids can bring his vision to life. Jeffery’s visionary approach incorporates design details and new finish choices that reflect modern living today.”

All objects in the Collection are thoughtfully represented in Jeffery’s artistically designed finishes. The finishes are complex in their application with multiple layers of color and stain, with some painted finishes requiring the use of Gesso to create texture and relief. The Bluebird and Flame finishes are comprised of many colors layered one on top of another and rubbed through to reveal undercoats. Jeffery is a hands-on furniture finisher who is readily willing to demonstrate his vision by doing. His reverence for history and nature are evident in choices of color (midnight blue, moss green and dove grey) and overall finished appearance and texture.

Kindel Grand Rapids maintains two showrooms in New York and in High Point, North Carolina. The High Point Furniture Market opens on Friday, April 13, 2018. The Jeffery Roberts Collection will be on display at Kindel Grand Rapids, 200 Steele Building, Suite 103. The Collection will launch in New York showroom during What’s New, What’s Next in September at the New York Design Center, 200 Lexington Ave, Suite 806.

More about Kindel Grand Rapids: Kindel Grand Rapids is an American, luxury furniture brand that includes Kindel, Karges, and Councill. Based in Grand Rapids, MI, the company is committed to bench-made methods and hand craftsmanship and today is uniquely positioned as the preeminent source for luxury furniture made in the United States.

The Kindel Furniture brand, known for 100% American-made furniture, has been in operation since 1901 and in Grand Rapids since 1912. The company enjoys a reputation for superior execution, hand craftsmanship and timeless design. The brand’s many partnerships and collaborations include furniture collections with Dorothy Draper and Company, The Winterthur Museum, Robert A.M. Stern Architects, Tudor Place and multiple interior designers through the Designer Artist Series including Julie Browning Bova, Robyn Branch, Mario Buatta, Dale Campbell and Eric Cohler.