Historically Inspired - Modern Precision

Theodore Alexander

The House

There is a particular confidence in a house that can reproduce an eighteenth-century commode and then quietly improve on it. Theodore Alexander builds the way the great cabinetmakers did - proportion first, then the long discipline of doing it properly - but with the precision modern manufacturing allows, so the romance never comes at the expense of the joinery. Its collections move fluently between centuries: a serpentine chest that would suit a Mayfair drawing room, a clean-lined console equally at home somewhere far more contemporary. This is furniture with a point of view and the craftsmanship to earn it - pieces that read as collected rather than bought. For the room that wants the weight of history, lightly worn.

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The Designers

The Hands Behind the House

Stephen Church

Stephen Church trained as a cabinetmaker before he designed anything under his own name. He works from the English eighteenth century, the workshops of Adam and Chippendale, Hepplewhite and Sheraton, and he knows those forms the way someone who has cut the joints knows them.

His collection for Theodore Alexander puts that knowledge into the construction rather than the silhouette. A Church piece carries the proportion of a period original and survives a room people actually live in. Craftsmen at Theodore Alexander build to his drawings, carve by hand, and lay veneer the way the eighteenth century laid it.

Clients ask us for period furniture that is neither an antique nor a reproduction. This is where we send them.

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Althorp Living History

With Charles Spencer, Earl Spencer

Althorp has been the Spencer family seat for nineteen generations. The house holds five centuries of furniture, bought by people who were furnishing their own rooms rather than assembling a collection, and most of it had never been drawn or measured.

In 2004 Charles Spencer, the ninth Earl, opened the house to Theodore Alexander. Craftsmen worked through ninety rooms and selected more than three hundred pieces from the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The Peacock cabinet, the Medallion sideboard and the Green Park sofa all trace to originals still standing at Althorp.

What arrives in a client's home is a working piece of furniture with a documented parent. The Earl continues to approve the collection as it grows, which is why the line has stayed close to the house instead of drifting into a general English style.

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Alexa Hampton

The Marlborough Collection

Alexa Hampton grew up in her father's office. Mark Hampton was one of the defining American decorators of his generation, and she took over the firm in 1998. She has held a place on the AD100 and Elle Decor's A-List for years, and she reads a room the way an architect does.

Marlborough runs across occasional, living, dining and bedroom. Her classical training governs the proportion. Her travelling shows up in the detail, in pieces that carry Morocco, the Middle East and India without announcing any of it, held inside English structure loose enough to feel American.

The collection suits clients who want rooms that look composed rather than decorated.

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Steve Leung

The Hong Kong architect and designer, working in a spare, contemporary register.

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The Setting

A Room, Quietly Assembled

Theodore Alexander is made to be lived with - pieces composed to sit together, room by room, the way the best interiors are built: slowly, and to last.

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Made Your Way

Commission It Exactly

Nearly every upholstered piece - and a great many of the casegoods - can be made to your specification: your fabric, your finish, your dimensions. Tell us what you have in mind and we will quote the piece exactly as you would commission it.

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