Home and office furniture, such as potting tables, hassocks, trays, umbrella stands, bookcases, revolving bookcases, bookshelves, pillar pedestals, chests of drawers, cabinets, chiffoniers, dressers, TV furniture, display cases, flower boxes, commodes, corner cupboards, clothes racks, storage cabinets, lecterns, writing boxes, tea caddies, music stands or easels, whatnots and night stands are on offer. Pieces of furniture, looking like antiques, of hardwood or softwood, massive or veneered, stained or French-polished. Home furniture, items of every day use and also a feast for the eye!
In the Middle Ages chests were the most important storage facilities. During the Renaissance, cabinets were made with an architectonic construction. Interest in cabinets as decoration began at the end of the 17th century. During that time, chests of drawers became convenient and popular pieces of furniture. Techniques became more and more refined. Dovetail joints replaced nailed joints. It is understandable that, according to the prevailing fashion, decorations on furniture, such as marble inlays, rich ormolu fittings, the use of special wood sorts (such as rosewood), inlay techniques with copper, tortoise shell and ebony, became ever more valuable.
Home and office furniture is extremely decorative and adds to the interior. For example, an easel served as a means to have a good look at a large book. The "dumb-waiter" and the whatnot served as convenient storage facilities for crockery and cutlery. The revolving bookcase speaks for itself. Night stands were made for the first time in the second half of the 18th century. Trays were used to display delicious sweets. The first specimens were probably made of tin and wood, but in the 17th century lacquered, richly decorated specimens were also imported from the East.
Drinking tea became the fashion and the demand for trays soared. Wonderful boxes to keep things in (letters, cutlery and tea) became popular under King George II (1727-1760).
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