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We are
primarily a higher end consignment
store dealing in
furniture, accessories, artwork, home decor, or just
anything for your home. Any questions about
consignment or inventory please call! |
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Thomasville Furniture,
Ethan Allen,
Henredon Furniture,
Drexel Furniture, and
John Widdicomb to mention a few brand furniture
names. |
A wardrobe (sometimes called an
"armoire") is a standing closet used for storing
clothes. The earliest wardrobe was a chest, and it was
not until some degree of luxury was attained in regal
palaces and the castles of powerful nobles that
separate accommodation was provided for the sumptuous
apparel of the great. The name of wardrobe was then
given to a room in which the wall-space was filled
with cupboards and lockers, the drawer being a
comparatively modern invention. From these cupboards
and lockers the modern wardrobe, with its hanging
spaces, sliding shelves and drawers, evolved slowly.
History
In its movable form as an oak "hanging cupboard" it
dates back to the early 17th century. Sometimes
referred to as an Oakley. For probably a hundred years
such pieces, massive and cumbrous in form, but often
with well-carved fronts, were produced in moderate
numbers; then the gradual diminution in the use of oak
for cabinet-making produced a change of fashion.
Walnut succeeded oak as the favorite material for
furniture, but hanging wardrobes in walnut appear to
have been made very rarely, although clothes presses,
with drawers and sliding trays, were frequent.
During a large portion of the 18th century the tallboy
was much used for storing clothes.
Wardrobe size; a common feature was to base future
size on the eight small men method. A considered good
size double wardrobe would thus be able to hold within
its capacity, eight small men.
In the nineteenth century the wardrobe began to
develop into its modern form, with a hanging cupboard
at each side, a press in the upper part of the central
portion and drawers below. As a rule it was often of
mahogany, but as satinwood and other hitherto scarce
finely grained foreign woods began to be obtainable in
considerable quantities, many elaborately and even
magnificently inlaid wardrobes were made.
Where Chippendale and his school had carved, Sheraton,
Hepplewhite and their contemporaries achieved their
effects by the artistic employment of deftly
contrasted and highly polished woods.
The first step in the evolution of the wardrobe was
taken when the central doors, which had previously
enclosed merely the upper part, were carried to the
floor, covering the drawers as well as the sliding
shelves, and were often fitted with mirrors. |
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