J.R. Burrows & Company Historical-Design Merchants

07/31/2022

A visit to Villa Louis last fall. This grand Italianate Villa was designed and built c. 1870 by Milwaukee architect E.Townsend Mix. In 1882 the Villa was inherited by Hercules Louis Dousman. A redecorating campaign in Arts & Crafts style was undertaken in the mid-1880s by the English designer Joseph Twyman of the Chicago interior design firm John J. McGrath. Grosvenor Wilton carpets were selected by historic designer Gail Winkler for the parlor, sitting room, and upstairs bedrooms during an extensive restoration in the 1990s. Villa Louis was built on a mound on an island in the Mississippi River at Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin.

07/28/2022

Brussels carpets at the Capt. Davis house, c.1805, Cape Ann Museum, Gloucester, Massachusetts.

07/27/2022

1849 design Brussels carpet in the Sanford House at Old World Wisconsin

09/08/2020

Found on Google from amazon.com

01/19/2020

The film 'Little Women' features Boston's Gibson House Museum as the sets for Jo's NYC boarding house, and the carpet recently reproduced Wilton carpet in the reception hall and dining room supplied by J.R. Burrows & Co. and woven by Grosvenor Wilton. It is a precise replica of the original carpet from 1890.

09/10/2019

Join me for Founders Day at Eastfield Village in Nassau, NY, on September 21st. Spend a day roaming around a privately created village of the 1820s with craft demonstrations and much more. During a workshop on early 19th century I will show how period carpet and wallpaper colors responded to lightings technology of the time. This annual event honors the memory of founder Don Carpentier.

Historic Eastfield is a recreated early American village, and home to the Annual Series of Early American Trades and Historic Preservation Workshops.

09/09/2016

Burrows & Co. has been busy over the past few years reproducing carpets for American museums. A selection of these projects follows.

09/09/2016

John Burrows consulted with curators of the American Wing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and reproduced the original wall-to-wall carpeting for the Worsham-Rockefeller Dressing Room.

09/09/2016

Gore Place in Waltham, Massachusetts. The archival design is 'Pembroke Leaf' c.1800. This has been woven in recent years for Gore Place, Hamilton Grange and Granger Homestead. There are two period documents for slightly different colorways. The bolder green was chosen for Gore Place and Hamilton Grange.