Talk Story with an Advertiser: Plantation Living and Interiors

Dana Mattos is hooked on collecting vintage Hawaiiana.

It all began in 1979 during her senior year at Konawaena High School when she got a job at Hula Heaven/Flamingo’s, a well-known retail store in Kailua-Kona that featured new and vintage Hawaiiana.

During college on the mainland, she moved through several states, all the while looking for vintage Hawaiian treasures. In 1985, it was time to come home to where she’d been born and raised.

There was such a craze during the late 1990s for anything vintage Hawaiiana, especially the furniture that was made and designed in Hawai‘i from the late 1930s to 1960s. The high demand for vintage Hawaiian furniture drove prices to an all-time high. This prompted Dana to seek a company that could do a reproduction of the old Hawaiian plantation look. In 2001, she found just the company. In 2003, she opened her first of three locations, now consolidated into one central place.

Dana educates people who are buying homes that the Hawaiian plantation look from the 1930–1960s is not the Balinese or teak that you see in some of the five-star hotels on island.

Plantation Living and Interiors offers the community unique, quality, and timeless furniture. They custom create to meet customers’ needs using only the finest tropical solid hardwoods—koa, mahaogany, and narra—durable rattan, and high quality upholstery designed to last for generations.

The Plantation Living trademark will become a lasting family heirloom. In addition, they have a revolving collection of unique vintage Hawaiiana at great prices that you are unlikely to find anywhere else. These include: Gil, John Kelley, original Matson posters, vintage ivory, jewelry, perfume bottles, vintage aloha shirts and clothing, Bakelite, hula and chalk lamps, and native Hawaiian fiber arts of lauhala, ipu gourds, and tapa.

Plantation Living and Interiors is the only store that carries these lines of Hawaiian reproduction rattan and carved wood furniture from the 1930s to 1960s, vintage Hawaiiana collectibles, locally made home interior accent pieces, and artwork from 25 local artists.

Plantation Living and owner Dana Mattos are perfect examples of living aloha. Stop by the store and see for yourself!

Plantation Living and Interiors
73-5613 Olowalu Street, Kailua-Kona
808.329.7082
plantationliving@gmail.com
PlantationLivingHawaii.com