Kittinger Company

Kittinger Company

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company_name = Kittinger Company
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company_type = Family business
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foundation = Buffalo, New York, 1866
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location_city = Buffalo, NY
location_country = USA
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industry = Furniture
products = Residential and Contract Furniture
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owner = Raymond Bialkowski, President / CEO
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homepage = [http://www.kittingerfurniture.com www.kittingerfurniture.com]
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The Kittinger Company is an American maker of colonial reproduction furniture.

The company was founded in Buffalo, New York in 1866. From 1937 to 1990, it was the chief furniture reproductions maker for the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation [cite web
last = Pollard
first = Garland
title = Colonial Williamsburg, it's history
work = brandchannel.com
publisher = Interbrand
date =2004-03-01
url = http://www.brandchannel.com/features_profile.asp?pr_id=169
accessdate = 2007-11-25 ] , and sold a Williamsburg-style look to visitors from the home of the Williamsburg Reproductions program, the Craft House [cite web
title = Archives: Case Pieces
work = Americana Furniture and Interiors
url = http://www.americanainteriors.com/arc_chests.html
accessdate = 2007-11-25 ] . Like Biggs Furniture of Richmond, Virginia, it served an upper middle class market in search of mostly mahogany reproduction furniture of equal quality to the originals, done to museum standards. The product was mainly crafted in the Queen Anne, Chippendale and Hepplewhite styles.

A number of Kittinger reproductions can still be found in the West Wing office area of the White House in Washington, DC. Colonial Williamsburg Foundation interior designers were commissioned by President Richard Nixon in 1970 to redo the interior design of the President's offices. Kittinger Company furniture was used extensively in the redesign since this company was the sole licensee of furniture for the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation's famous program to produce exact reproductions of 18th century antiques. [cite web
title = Douglas W. Kenyon Biogrpahy
publisher = Hunton and Williams
url = http://www.hunton.com/bios/bio.aspx?id=14737&tab=0013
accessdate = 2007-11-25 ] . Included in the redesign was a new conference table and chairs for the cabinet room. President Nixon wrote a personal check to pay for the new cabinet room table custom made by The Kittinger Company and donated it to the White House. The company continues to manufacture in Buffalo, NY.

External links

* [http://www.kittingerfurniture.com Company site]

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