After extensive investigation and exploration in Latin America in the pre-Google days they became aware not only of colonial centers in Latin America, but also of colonial trade routes, primarily the Acapulco/Manila galleon trade route that operated between Acapulco Bay and Manila Bay from 1585 to 1820 with once a year round trip voyages. They then began to explore these trade routes which took them to Spanish, Dutch and Portuguese colonies that existed in Asia and realized the influence of these colonies had on the Americas and began finding colonial pieces with an Asian influence.

What started as a hobby by the late Edward Holler collecting prime examples of Mexican Colonial and folk art, he and his partner Samuel Saunders evolved the business into a full blown “look” that encompasses a sumptuous and exuberant expression of maximalism, grandeur, scale, symmetry and bravado always exposing the finest qualities of their original intention of seeking out the best of Latin American Colonial furniture and decorative arts.

Those interests led them to emphasize Colonial Revival styles as well as pieces of their own design which are produced by master artisans in Mexico and South America. Samuel Saunders carries on the business which has developed into a more minimalistic approach to their original maximalistic philosophy.

For over 40 years Holler & Saunders, Ltd. has followed this global colonization of the world, with its indigenous interpretation of European styles introduced into the Americas and Asia looking for examples of decorative art, architectural components and furniture to add to their large collection which can be experienced in Nogales, Arizona on the border with Mexico, and now at the new shopping experience, HS Reserve, you are invited to enjoy an exclusive and rare opportunity to look into the Holler & Saunders, Ltd. collection, where you can take a journey through the timeless pieces of furniture and art, travel back in time to see what colonial home décor may have been like, and into the future to “the apotheosis of art and technology… when the past becomes the future… and the future the past…” where you can live with the pieces in the present.