在殖民地威廉斯堡的藏書館中，有一本18世紀50年代介紹「中國風」花園裝飾設計的珍貴圖書，而 Global Views 的這組威廉斯堡阿默斯特系列的設計靈感正是來源於此，毫無疑問，這樣的設計出現在當下的都市公寓或郊區別墅裡依然時髦。

這種獨特的青灰色拋光浮雕細工，與英國上流社會鍾愛的洛可可風格家具和銀器頗為相似，深受當時的英國北美總督 Jeffery Amherst 和 18 世紀 60 年代的弗吉尼亞州皇家總督的喜愛。

Inspired by a 1750s design for garden ornaments "in the Chinese taste" from a rare book in Colonial Williamsburg′s library, the Amherst fret-facade pieces will look equally stylish in today′s city flat or suburban house. The burnished pewter-colored fretwork is akin to the fashionable English rococo furniture and silver that wealthy patrons such as Jeffery Amherst--Governor-General of British North America--and (absentee) royal governor of Virginia from 1759-68--would have appreciated.