Closet or wardrobe designers news. One is bad, another good. Let’s start with the drop leaf southerland bad: having lived a nice and interesting life, traditional cabinet threatens to disappear from our interiors. This, however, is only about the wood chamber pot/comode wardrobes - the rococo chest of drawer classic vertical boxes on legs with hinged doors. Ground from under the antique hunting lodge furniture se feet broke the pembroke table antique with brass lion drawer ha so-called wardrobe, ergonomic design that appeared on the 1840 english dresser market in the poole dorset antique four poster tapestry bed 90 years and won instant popularity. the 1847 blue and green plates antiques main advantage of new storage systems - the straight leg writing table y genuinely save space, fitting in a niche, corner, or any improper space, which can be considered an architectural misunderstanding. However, a full wardrobe furniture can hardly be called - rather a set of beautiful front panels and filling the trestle table with draw leaf constructor; sidewall, rear wall, and upper and lower “caps” may be adapted or even absent.

However, the small antique side chair with cabriole legs functionality of the sherratt staffordshire figures of apostles wardrobe were so extensive that most firms immediately switched to the stig lindberg dealers manufacture of doors, panels and fasteners. Were invented in two basic designs: the serpentine pierced side chair first case, the italian antique bulbous leg table wooden walls were erected, which carries the open spiral brass candlesticks shelves, rods, hung doors, in the empire drop leaf pedestal table second case, built a metal frame that kept filling the masculine wooden coffee table same door and the antique square tea table walls did not exist. the thonet reproduction made in czhecholosvakia second option saves space and money, but the large antique buffet first - look noble and was closer to the antique settees actual cabinet. Doors - the circa 1800 antique green champagne bottle most important element of the antique rotating castor caddy new wardrobe, so to say it, the masso bastardo ceramic business card. the convert trestle table to desk y may be hinged (the most familiar to us the banjo clock movement door), as an option - reversible, opening at 180 degrees, and sliding (as in the art deco swedish armchairs wardrobe), or an accordion (sometimes on roller skates). Ironically, the large reproduction ornate antique dining table, inlay professionals are highly respected accordion door - when you open the antique wainscot y occupy minimal space. Some firms accordion doors not only shape, but I stop inside the birmingham edward smith silver cabinet.

In the rococo style beds late 90’s was invented by the english victorian chest of drawers with barley twist most advanced door system - komponarnaya, or so-called “sandwich”. When closed, the louis black floral chair dunelm se doors form a smooth flat front, and when you open one door smoothly leaves on top of another, forming this “sandwich”. Nothing more has not invented a new - in recent years, attention has shifted to design finishing. It should be noted that the royal dux retriever use of real wood in the victorian papiere mache settee new dressing rooms is only possible in the round chiffonier dresser maple finishing of doors - paneling can be covered with veneer, is inserted into a wooden frame, woven from strips of veneered.

For a long time, factories competing to see who makes the high raised antique beds highest and longest wardrobe - the inurl:antique-table.net site:antique-table.net y were built from wall to wall, floor to ceiling. However, by 2003 megalomania came to an end: it became obvious that a disproportionate increase in the antique table-dining; oak, round top, turned pedestal, paw feet, lions head height affects the victorian chiffonier technical characteristics - door leaf can not stand, bend. the john linwood spit roasting jack Italians have stopped at a height of 290 cm, Germans - 267, known to our customers at IKEA, never promised a stunning quality, sensibly stayed at 236 cm (by the very small and narrow china and linen cupboard way, the repro bakelite jumo lamp calculation of the antique 18th century german furniture low ceilings of our Khrushchev). In the how much is a victorian mahogany pembroke table worth case-in closets most important element were not MDFnye and DSPshnye wall or veneer doors and the dressers with dog kennels steel rollers and runners - who knew how to do the did original chippendale furniture have screws? m, in fact, and “compartment” Satisfaction. Wardrobe, the antique mahogany kidney shaped table classic view of joiner’s art, threatened to degenerate into a dry engineering design …

It would seem, “respected” on the antique chippendale stack table legs, modestly gathering dust in furniture stores, all the black carved dragon chair 1850 forgotten and despised. But no such luck. Returning to the inlaid mahogany table brass fretwork rails classic and mixed interior led to the louis the 14th furniture idea that even a huge monolith in your room - it is not always beautiful. Sliding doors pall, and in the bamboo french antique chairs dressing room, not all have enough space.

Buy a normal, traditional cabinet again, not ashamed - witness, for example, the herculaneum furniture range of IKEA in 2003: in addition to the cabriole hoof standard system wardrobes “Pax” (occurring in five Moscow apartment) in the bonheur du jour rosewood 1890 english directory have brought a wealth of charming wardrobes cabinets. the antique carved victorian furniture bulbous legs y stand on the antique card tables folding old-fashioned square or rounded legs, the pots cupboards y have the grooved horizontally for bed cords upper lid, with a rail and sometimes visible hinges - it only adds to the william iv tilt top table rosewood card circular charm cabinets. Free standing wardrobes can be made to and from the library card cabinet front secretaries down desk array (in IKEA - a fir, pine, aspen), however, behave as such furniture, no one predicted not taken - wood can crack, warp. As breakaway guarantees required small height - 185-187 cm, and the postal scales victorian construction filenochnaya door: the chinnery antique frame of wooden planks tame whims. However, in this case you buy is not the early american dining room tables perfection of technical ideas (wardrobe), and old-fashioned and comfortable, with the mahogany cabinet makers smell of wood, rather than glue, but comfort is entitled to a minor shortcomings. By the hepplewhite motifs way, the lacquer paper mache powder pot re are some cases no more, and sometimes cheaper built wardrobes.

Here, indeed, is the antique decorative three legged half circle tables good news that we were going to tell you in the hepplewhite bed beginning of the small table for hall article. Cabinet has the antique marble top table three legs right to place in a modern interior, if it is not only functional but also beautiful. If desired, this cumbersome, but necessary furniture can be a real gem of the 19th century federal mahogany desk house. In artistic interiors have become popular dyed or painted cabinets - the used italian sideboard in london y are doing the antique dresser four legs Russian craftsmen and small western factories: a strong tradition of painted wooden furniture the antique islamic chests re, for example, in Provence. Those who have not yet matured to the majolica pottery - value cabinet art facility, addressed oak heavyweights “antique” - the edwardian corner cabinet y can be found in some (very favorite) western catalogs, and our Belarusians. Sometimes it makes sense to buy a really old, proven thing, for example, Belgian or Dutch from the antique chair types pictures shop “Dutch Interior” - the decorative corner cupboards se items have not yet acquired the smokers low back armchair set status of antiques, but have all the pie crust edge drop leaf table antique virtues. Do not give up the myott son co pottery cabinet, if you are looking for a repository, not clothes, but books or some collections. Open, glassed-in storage - one of the french rouen ceramic examples favorite the duchesse i mahogny mes of modern designers. In the old italian flowered veneered game table 1900’s end, the antique chair saw marks question of “cupboard or wardrobe” is easily resolved if you know exactly what and how many things you want to store the antique ebony chinese vase stand re. Finally - a few words about the vintage english silver wine coaster stuffing.

New or a classic wardrobe, winning in terms of aesthetic, strongly loses the antique table with music scroll carving ability to hide. Its interior does not offer the 1930’s walnut dressing table most optimal solutions, however, the four glass bronze pendulum mantel clocks average person is enough. the antique cigarette stands bar and a few shelves - here is the scotch chest ogee uncomplicated set that got the antique spirit levels brass wooden conservative. Some manufacturers supply the cutting a cabriole chair leg in a bandsaw ir wardrobes small insertions of cypress wood - fragrant tree helps to ward off moths and creates a pleasant fragrance without any perfumes, sachets.

Filling a modern wardrobe is more varied, the deco side chairs wood re are many technical innovations: pen-lift, which helps to lower high button coat hanger, a round revolving tie rack, shelves with clips on one shirt, metal mesh shelves and storage containers knitted things (to breathe). Wardrobe can assume the 16th century bed chests function and chest: his bowels to ease accommodate boxes of gloves, underwear, handkerchiefs, scarves and all sorts of little things.

Walk-in closet provides the antique water droppers most opportunities. Here you can store bulky fur items, blankets and pillows, sports equipment, set on the chest of drawers doors on top shelf footwear to afford a rack for umbrellas and walking sticks, mobile boxes on wheels, banquette and full-length mirror. However, if you are the lyre shaped mahogany end tables owner of the rosewood sideboard chinese antique cabinet with carving and inlay work, you are unlikely to give up its treasures for the antique drop leaf dining table denver colorado sake of all the master zareh kum kapi carpet se blessings of civilization.

ANTIQUE AND SATINWOOD CROSSBANDED SIDE TABLE, ANTIQUE SECRETAIRE BOOKCASE, OVAL MAHOGANY DROP-LEAF TABLE

A NEST OF THREE WALNUT
OCCASIONAL TABLES, 18th Century, oval
and on turned legs, faults. wide,
together with a blue Japanned wine table,
18th Century, the circular top decorated with a bird and flowers. diameter, and a brass tray top table, Near Eastern, on a folding wood stand.

AN ANTIQUE BUREAU, George III,
the fall enclosing a fitted interior, above four
long graduated drawers, on bracket feet,
restored.

AN EBONISED AND GILT METAL MOUNTED SIDE CABINET, Victorian, the central panelled door with an oval Sevres style porcelain plaque, flanked by a pair of curved glazed doors

enclosing shelves, on toupie feet, faults.

AN EBONISED AND AMBOYNA SIDE CABINET, Victorian, with gilt metal mounts, the central panelled door inlaid with a cartouche and flanked by a pair of curved glazed doors enclosing

shelves, on toupie feet.

AN ANTIQUE AND SATINWOOD CROSSBANDED SIDE TABLE, George III style, with four drawers and on tapered square legs with castors.

A SET OF MAHOGANY
METAMORPHIC LIBRARY STEPS, George
III style, with a leather inset top and on
turned legs.

AN INLAID ROSEWOOD
ENVELOPE CARD TABLE, late Victorian,
the hinged four piece top above a small
drawer, on turned tapering legs joined by a
stretcher.

AN INLAID AND EBONISED SIDE CABINET, Victorian, with gilt metal mounts, the central glazed door now lacking glass enclosing shelves and flanked by glazed side panels, on bracket

feet, wide.

AN ANTIQUE DRINKS CABINET, modern, with a pair of oval panelled doors above a drawer and a further pair of doors, on splaved bracket feet.

A LARGE MAHOGANY LIBRARY BOOKCASE, George ni style, with a fluted and dentil cornice above four astragal glazed doors, the lower part with four circular panelled doors, on a

plinth base, high by wide.

A LARGE WALNUT BREAKFRONT LIBRARY BOOKCASE, Victorian, stamped COLLINSON & LOCKE, LONDON,, the moulded cornice above four astragal glazed doors, the lower part with strapwork

and foliate carved panels, on bun feet.

AN ANTIQUE SECRETAIRE
BOOKCASE, Victorian, the moulded cornice
above a pair of glazed doors, the lower pan
with a drawer now lacking fittings above a
pair of cupboard doors, on a plinth base.

A SET OF SIX CARVED OAK DINING
CHAIRS, Victorian, including one armchair,
each with a lion cresting above a padded back
and seat, on spiral twist and square legs.

A GROUP OF SEVEN PIECES OF
BLACK JAPANNED FURNITURE. th
Century, each piece with Ounoeserie
decoration, composing an oval table.

AN ANTIQUE EXTENDING
DINING TABLE, Victorian, the rounded
rectangular top raised on fluted tapering legs
with ceramic castors, with one extra leaf,
high by wide. by long
extended.

AN OAK BOOKCASE CABINET, Victorian, the moulded cornice above a pair of glazed doors, the lower part with two panelled doors, on a plinth base, high by wide.

A BLACK JAPANNED THREE PIECE SUITE, 18th Century, comprising a settee and two armchairs, each with chinoiserie decoration and with single caning, on lobed bun feet.

AN ANTIQUE CHEST, George IV, the two short and three long drawers with ivory escutcheons, on bracket feet.

AN OAK CHEST, George III, with two short and three long drawers, on bracket feet, wide.

A BEECHWOOD CANTERBURY, George III style, modern, with a drawer, on turned legs and castors, wide.

A MINIATURE MAHOGANY AND INLAID CHEST, Edwardian, with two short and three long drawers, on bracket feet.

AN OVAL MAHOGANY DROP-LEAF TABLE, George II with restorations, on turned tapering legs with pad feet, wide. extended.

A WALNUT DINING ROOM SUITE,
William and Mary style, early 18th Century,
each piece raised on scrolled supports joined
by stretchers, comprising: an extending
Dining Table. long extended
including a spare leaf; a set of eight Dining
Chairs, including a pair of armchairs, with
caned backs; a Serving Table, with a
serpentine top and a pair of drawers.
wide; and a breakfront Sideboard, with
drawers and cupboard doors.

ANTIQUE EXTENDING
DINING TABLE, Victorian, with a moulded
top. on turned and fluted legs with castors,
long extended including two leaf insetions.

A CARVED OAK LINEN PRESS, 2th
Century, made up, with a pair of doors
enclosing sliding trays above drawers, on
bracket feet, wide.

ANTIQUE AND PINE CHEST OF DRAWERS, OAK REFECTORY TABLE, JAPANNED HANGING CORNER CUPBOARD, GOLD PAINTED GESSO FRAMED WALL MIRROR

AN OAK REFECTORY TABLE, 18th Century style, with solid shaped end supports long

AN ANTIQUE TUB SHAPED ARMCHAIR, William IV, the padded rail with sunburst spandrels, on leaf carved tapered legs ending in brass cappings and castors

AN ANTIQUE AND PINE CHEST OF DRAWERS, George III, with four long graduated drawers, on bracket feet, faults, wide.

AN INLAID WALNUT
MUSIC CABINET, Victorian, with two tiers
and a glazed door, wide.

AN ANTIQUE AND PARCEL-GILT WALL MIRROR, George III, the
rectangular later plate within a fret frame
surmounted by an eagle cresting.

A PAIR OF BLACK JAPANNED ARMCHAIRS, 18th Century, decorated with chinoiserie, caned backs and seats, on cabriole legs, together with a black japanned tub armchair, 18th Century,

with a caned back, on cabriole legs.

AN ANTIQUE DROPLEAF TABLE, George III, with alterations, on tapered square legs.

A WALNUT BREAKFRONT
LIBRARY BOOKCASE, 18th Century, with
astragal doors and panelled cupboard doors,
on cabriole feet.

AN OAK ROLL TOP PEDESTAL DESK, Edwardian, with an arrangement of slides and drawers, on plinth bases.

A WALNUT AND CROSSBANDED KNEEHOLE DESK, Queen Anne style, with an arrangement of six drawers, on cabriole legs.

AN ANTIQUE POLE SCREEN, part 18th Century, with a floral tapestry panel.

A GILTWOOD WALL MIRROR, Regency, with spiral twist pilasters flanking a later plate, repainted.

A MAHOAGNY BOWL STAND, George II style, with a drawer and tripod supports, high

A PAIR OF EBONISED AND PARCEL GILT CORNER WHATNOTS, Victorian,with bowfront tiers and turned supports, each high

A CARVED GILTWOOD CONSOLE TABLE, late 18th Century, with a replaced top and a single tapering support headed by
a mask, regilded.

A WALNUT AND INLAID SIDE CABINET, Victorian, with a marble top above three doors including a mirror panel, wide.

TWO INLAID MAHOGANY TUB ARMCHAIRS, Edwardian, with pierced backs and tapered supports

AN ANTIQUE DUMB WAITER, George III style, with three tiers and tripod supports, diam.

A JAPANNED HANGING CORNER CUPBOARD, continental, 18th Century, of bow-front form with a pair of doors enclosing shelves, wide.

A ROSEWOOD POLESCREEN, William IV, with a needlework panel, on a turned stem and triform base.

AN ANTIQUE DRESSING TABLE
MIRROR, George III, with an oval plate and
bow-front three drawer base, wide.

A CAST IRON AND BRASS
OCCASIONAL TABLE, Victorian, with a
thuvawood top and adustable rope-twist stem,
on an ornately cast base, diam.

A SET OF FOUR SIMULATED
BAMBOO ARMCHAIRS, George III style,
the painted frames with trellis backs and cane
seats.

AN ANTIQUE BREAKFRONT
BOOKCASE, in eight sections with glazed
doors above panelled cupboard doors, on a
plinth base.

AN OAK ROLL-TOP DESK,
Edwardian, the ogee fall above pedestal bases
containing slides and drawers.

AN OAK ROLL-TOP DESK,
Edwardian, the shallow fall above pedestal
bases containing slides and drawers.

A GILT-GESSO AND ETCHED GLASS
WALL MIRROR, Victorian, the pierced lyre
cresting above a rectangular moulded frame.

A GOLD PAINTED GESSO FRAMED WALL MIRROR, with an oval bevelled plate within a leaf-moulded frame.

BREAKFRONT AND LIBRARY BOOKCASES

About 1730 onwards
George III mahogany breakfront bookcase with broken pediment.
Free-standing domestic bookcases were rare before the 18thC. Those made for Samuel Pepys in the 1660s are the earliest known. After about 1720, as people owned more books, substantial bookcases were to be found in the libraries of all large houses; by the end of the century they were features of other rooms too, and of smaller homes. Not all were meant exclusively for books; many were used for china instead, or for both.
18thC bookcases were predominantly architectural in character and sometimes of monumental size. After 1740 many were made in breakfront form: a large central section projecting forwards beyond two flanking wings. Straight-fronted bookcases are today generally distinguished from breakfronts by the term ‘library bookcase’.
STYLE AND APPEARANCE
Six categories; but they share basically the same form. An upper, generally glazed, section for books, with a carved and moulded cornice, sometimes surmounted by a pediment, sits above a deeper and shorter lower section comprising cupboards (and sometimes drawers too) for storage of maps, prints and other papers. Occasionally, a secretaire drawer is also present. Pediments were often broken, their centre (with or without a raised plinth) holding a bust, carved eagle, urn or other work of art.
The six categories are:
Kentian, about 1710-1740 (rare today): Bold classical architectural features: broken pediments, deep cornices, pilasters faced with pendants of fruit and flowers. Central doors often arched. Upper section with large rectangular panels of glass set in broad, moulded bars, or blind of mirror panelling. Base with panelled doors, sometimes shaped and fielded, supported on a plinth.
Chippendale period, about 1740-1765: Still with classical features, but more restrained. Cornices narrower and plainer.
Fashionable pieces had a central pediment with pierced carving, wings surmounted by fretwork gallery. Pediment could be swan-neck. Availability of mahogany meant thinner and lighter glazing bars, often carved in rococo, chinoiserie and Gothic patterns (rococo occasionally gilded) or astragals (see p. 329) arranged in geometric patterns. Today, a large number of panes in an individual pattern (say 13 or 15) is considered to be a sign of quality. Base still panelled, with decorative carved edging or applied blind fret mouldings. Plinths often replaced by bracket feet.
Neo-classical, about 1770-1790: Neat and formal over-all. Simple pediments, often with urns in centre and at corners.
Cornices carved with repetitive classical ornament; astragals in geometric patterns. Lower doors with simple mouldings applied in square, circular or oval shapes, often with paterae at corners. Stands on a plinth base.
Sheraton-style, about 1790-1810: Often narrower than before, lower section taller. Pediments scroll- or lunette-shaped.
Upper doors sometimes with brass wire trellis and pleated silk rather than astragals. Astragals could be painted or gilt lead. Lower doors with decorative veneers. Large central ovals common. Splay feet fashionable, occasionally turned feet after 1800.
Regency/early Victorian, about 18101850: Large bookcases less common at first than small. Could have Egyptian or Grecian ornament (see DWARF BOOKCASES).
Antefizae on corners. Lunette-shaped pediments, if any. Fluting interspersed with paterae popular feature on cornices.
Late Regency plain. Straight moulded cornices, scrolled or acanthus carved supports typical of day.
Victorian, about 1840-1900: Often very plain, even best quality relying only on veneers for decorative effects. A large number almost style-less. Arched doors with plain glass echoed by applied arched mouldings on lower doors. Sometimes rococo/naturalistic mouldings below. Lower part could also be glazed. Cornices deep and heavily moulded, sometimes with rounded corners. Simple bracket supports sometimes present.
Could also be reformist Gothic; characteristic features: chamfered edges, diagonal boarded panelling on lower doors; or, Renaissance style: heavily carved all over. (See
under DECORATION)
18thC styles were revived at end of the 19thC. Sheraton-style particularly popular during Edwardian period, but often a poor imitation. Considerable reduction in size. Brightly contrasting cross-banding and inlay of shells, fans, combined with dentin-moulded cornice common. Often yellowish mahogany with poor, treacly-looking finish.
MATERIALS
Walnut in the Queen Anne period; sometimes painted and gessoed pine. Mahogany from about 1730, joined by satinwood around 1790. Rosewood only rarely, during Regency. Both walnut and mahogany during Victoria’s reign; oak for reformist Gothic and (less common) Renaissance style.
Various designs for bookcase and cabinet pediments: in particular A, 1680-1730; A 1730-1750; C, 1750-1780; A pagoda-shaped cresting, about 1750-1770; E, scrolling arch, about 1780-1810; F neo-classical urns and drapery, about 1765-1800; G, scrolling arch with urn, about 1790-1830.
BOOKCASES
CONSTRUCTION
Standard practices employed. Sometimes revealed mortise-and-tenon construction on reformist Gothic. Many convincing reproductions of 18thC bookcases were made by the Victorians and at a glance look right, so look for indications of age, such as:
Shelf supports: Early 18thC pieces have shelves slotted between narrow strips of wood glued to the sides at regular intervals. From about 1730, shelves were more usually rebated into grooves cut in the sides. After 1800: supported on wood or metal pegs plugged into pairs of evenly spaced holes.
If the shelf supports continue right up to the top of each side, the bookcase has almost certainly been cut down. They should finish a book’s height below the cornice.
Glazing bars: Before 1800 bars were usually rebated into stiles and rails, therefore
Left, glazing bar rebated into style; right, astragal glazing bars.
flush with surface. After 1800: more commonly tenoned, therefore slightly recessed.
Other points of interest: Cases originally intended for china may have grooves at the back of the shelves for the support of plates.
Original glass will not be completely flat and clear. The putty holding it in place will be very hard and dark and will have accumulated a good deal of dirt.
If there was once a pediment there will be obvious marks where it once sat. Its absence does not necessarily affect value. Try and get up there to take a look.
DECORATION
Principally carved ornament, mostly on cornices. In 18th and early 19thC, classical style. Could be Vitruvian scrolls, egg-and-dart, tongue-and-dart, dentil moulding, acanthus, Gothic fret, fluting interspersed with paterae, swags.
Blind fret carving on lower doors and cornices, in mid-18thC sometimes open fret on pediments.
Figuring of veneer always a main feature. Decorative use of veneers in the forms of ovals, cross-banding on Sheraton and Sheraton revival pieces, occasionally restrained inlay in addition.
Incised decoration sometimes present on reformist Gothic pieces; occasionally inlay of ebony, ivory too, in small repetitive geometric patterns. Bold carving of lion’s masks, foliage, geometric mouldings, cartouches, on Renaissance revival pieces.
Handles: When present, they follow prevailing patterns.
FINISH
Left, 18thC shelf arrangements; above, 19thC fixing,
Polish. Stain on 19thC oak; light, often yellowish, for Gothic, dark for Renaissance.
RELATIVE VALUES
Quality 18thC bookcases in original condition are valuable items, many fetching well into five figures. Pediments, secretaire drawers, a pre-1750 date and, most important, breakfronts, will increase value. Similar library versions are generally cheaper as are small Sheraton-style pieces with decorative veneers. Late Regency/William IV mahogany, Victorian/Edwardian mahogany reproductions of 18thC pieces, Victorian oak and walnut are all variable.