An Easter Basket

The history of the Easter Basket can be traced back to pagan times when the passage of winter and emergence of spring were  celebrated with gifts reflecting the arrival of brighter days. As a child I was not aware of the Easter Basket but was very aware of chocolate Easter eggs often filled with very sweet centers.

 In the tradition of celebrating the new growth of spring we have created a non-edible collection of items to fill our basket chosen from the collection of plant cabinet pulls and Netsuke door knobs.

The plants that made up the basket collage are shown below. The center sycamore leaves and button mushroom are part of the flower and leaf collection.

Mushroom Cabinet Knobs and Pulls

When is a mushroom a cabinet knob and when is it a cabinet pull?  Until last week I thought the question was at best a case of semantics and at worst a case of pedantry, but I stand firmly corrected as the wrong word choice can result in oblivion. I am not alas an expert in the field of SEO but when describing our cabinet accessories my primary focus has been on the design element, in this case mushrooms, with my secondary focus being the shape of a piece, if round a knob, if vertical or horizontal, a pull.

Mushroom Cabinet Pull

What had not occurred to me is that the word “mushroom” has on the internet come to mean button mushroom shape and so all manner of cabinet knobs that have no resemblance to a mushroom happily populate the image section for this search term.

Why does this bother me, have I perhaps been eating the wrong mushrooms?  Rest assured my concern has nothing to do with what I have been ingesting but has a lot to do with becoming frustrated with searches that come up short on fungi.

Thankfully there are some very talented and tenacious designers like Suzanne Childress  out there who know a mushroom pull/knob when they see one and who take the time to search through the maze to find the right piece for their client. My sincere thanks to Suzanne for finding our elusive pieces.