Furniture design of course progresses and innovates over time just like any craft, sometimes in straightforward improvements, and sometimes in response to simple changes in popular taste, leading to situations where there can be both newer and more traditional looks with their own respective strengths and appeals. This sometimes leaves customers in situations where they think they’re forced to starkly choose between the classically evocative and the sleekly new in their interior design choices.

Here at J&B we have an impressive wealth of storage and display collections, suites of matching items of furniture cleaving to a single design vision so that they can be purchased and incorporated into your home individually and represent a substantial interior design asset, but which are especially stunning when bought together, such that a room with multiple items from the same range will experience a decisive interior design transformation.

We bring this up because we’d like to shine a light on J&B’s comprehensive Ollie Collection, precisely because it’s such an intriguing and impactful response to the dichotomy of newer vs vintage styles.

What Ollie Collection’s aesthetic does, deftly and with seeming ease, is fuse the slick elegance of modern styles with the vintage tastefulness of classic designs, especially achieving that classic feel in its warm and mature construction materials and shading. Smooth geometric shapes and segmentation establish the underlying chic and forward-looking style, while the enhancing touch of the classic is expressed in the combination of rich oak and matt black finish, along with the subtly smoked and tinted glass the range opts for in display units and the kinking angularity of the handles and fittings.

What we hope this demonstrates is that apparent mutually exclusive obstacles and barriers to what can be done in our industry can in fact simply be a conceptual jumping off point to once more innovate upon and reach new heights. At J&B we strive to fill out our range with premium quality options that can surprise you and meet your home’s needs and personal tastes more perfectly than you thought possible. And of course if you’re someone who deeply appreciates this fusion style and finds it resonating with you, we hope you’ll consider browsing the range, getting in touch, or dropping in and talking about what units might be ideal for your home.