Chairs at Reynolda

When Katharine Reynolds began decorating her new country house in 1916, she did not bring furniture from her previous home on Fifth Street in Winston-Salem. Instead, she hired professional decorator Earle Ash Belmont of Wanamaker’s department store in Philadelphia to create new interiors for the Reynolda bungalow. Following the current preference for well-made reproductions over antiques, Belmont acquired furniture in styles evoking the 16th through 18th centuries and arranged it in tasteful harmony with the architecture.