Beauty, utility, and our fireplace rugs

William Morris said, "To give people pleasure in the things they must perforce use, that is one great office of decoration..." Should the home be a place only for useful things or should beauty take precedence? The answer is obvious, and many a home magazine rack full of household improvement journals or decor catalogs gives evidence to it. All across the globe, no matter the culture, things that give pleasure, beautiful but useful objects, fireplace rugs, hearth rugs or brass bookends in Colorado, intricately carved clocks in Germany, delicate porcelain cups on an English tea table, or remarkable wooden carved ritual masks in the Central African Republic, these all attest to the place beauty holds in the human heart. It is not to be overlooked.

Sunlit golden wood flooring, deep wool fireplace rugs, and a lush fig tree set in a copper planter near a stack of music manuscripts, perhaps a graceful Lladro figurine or a coveted piece of Balleek from Eire, imagine these assembled in your den on a quiet day in September, and you'll understand the passion behind excellentaccents.com. This is not a store full of items taken lightly. Rather, our brass planter selection, passel of umbrella stands, flock of canisters, these are all selected, imported, and offered to you with the highest standards for excellence.

How an item for hearth and home is made is very important to us, and we know it matters to our customers. We know that cheap brass planters can be had, but we offer our customers a brass planter of quality, make of solid brass, formed with care and detail. We've seen magazine racks thrown together with cheap materials; we offer our customers a home magazine rack, made of leather, iron or brass, that is well-made, intelligently designed. Many stores carry flimsy hearth rugs; we insist on directly importing our rugs to offer the very best to our customers in quality and cost. Our customers expect excellence; we insist on providing just that.