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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]