British 1920s Metal Industrial Pigeon Hole Storage Unit CD Storage
Located in Llanbrynmair, GB
An early 20th century industrial pigeon hole storage unit, good size with 48 pigeon holes.
Early 20th Century English Industrial Antique Pigeon Hole
Metal
British 1920s Metal Industrial Pigeon Hole Storage Unit CD Storage
Located in Llanbrynmair, GB
An early 20th century industrial pigeon hole storage unit, good size with 48 pigeon holes.
Metal
$1,444Sale Price|30% Off
Ca 1900 Vintage industrial workshop pigeon hole cabinet with 30 drawers
Located in Markington, GB
Ca. 1900 Industrial Workshop Pigeon Hole Cabinet with Multiple Drawers Description: A striking circa 1900 industrial workshop pigeon hole cabinet, rich in character and authentic pa...
Wood
George II Bureau Bookcase - 18th Century Mahogany
Located in Potters Bar, GB
The Fall Opening to reveal an arrangement of Serpentine Shaped Drawers a Mirrored Central Cupboard and pigeon holes. 18th Century The upper section having 2 doors and an arrangement ...
Mahogany
Early 19th Century George III Mahogany Bureau Bookcase
Located in Dublin 8, IE
Early 19th Century George III mahogany inlaid bureau bookcase in the Neoclassical manner, the moulded and stepped cornice supported over two blind doors with Neoclassical architectur...
Glass, Mahogany
19th Century English Pine Estate Cupboard
Located in Gloucestershire, GB
Fitted with later painted interior shelves and pigeon holes. This would look fabulous in a boot cupboard, hallway, kitchen or office.
Pine
Louis XVI Mahogany and Brass Mounted Bureau a Cylindre, Late 18th Century
Located in Spencertown, NY
The desk with a 1/4 cylinder top that opens to reveal a leather writing surface with pigeon holes and drawers. The gallery with white Carrara marble top.
Mahogany
American Sheraton Cherry Hunt Board with Desk, Circa 1820
Located in Charleston, SC
American Sheraton cherry hunt board with fall front desk, fitted interior with upper drawers and scalloped pigeon holes, mahogany knobs and terminating on turned ringed bulbous legs.
An authentic military campaign storage cupboard in pine
Located in Aartselaar, BE
An authentic creme-white military campaign cupboard in pine with shelving and pigeons holes. The cupboard consists out of three seperate units (see photos) with handles for easy tran...
Pine
English Chippendale Mahogany Carved Floral Desk With Bookcase. Circa 1770
Located in Charleston, SC
English Chippendale mahogany desk / bookcase on stand with flanking book matched doors, gadrooned molded edge, fitted interior pigeon holes over four drawers, adjustable interior she...
Mahogany
A Fine Early 18th Century George I Burr Walnut Bureau Bookcase, Circa 1715
Located in Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
The upper section has a cavetto cornice above a large single door inset with a shaped soft bevelled edge looking glass with re-entrant upper corners and opens on the original hinges ...
Oak, Walnut, Burl
Early George III Period Bureau Bookcase with Swan Neck Pediment
Located in Atlanta, GA
An early George III period bureau bookcase with fretwork swan neck pediment, 30-paned bookcase, slant front enclosed leather writing surface, fitted drawers and pigeon-holes. Below w...
Brass
Outstanding Quality Antique George II Figured Mahogany Bureau Bookcase
Located in Suffolk, GB
Outstanding quality antique George II figured mahogany bureau bookcase having an outstanding quality figured mahogany top with unusual shaped panelled doors opening to reveal a fitte...
Other
Chippendale Period Mahogany Secretaire Tallboy
Located in Lincolnshire, GB
The drawer fronts are all butt veneered in flame mahogany, and with the original brass handles The secretaire drawer is fitted with drawers and pigeon holes. Circa 1770
Mahogany
Antique Dutch Marquetry Toilet Mirror
Located in Bradford-on-Avon, Wiltshire
Fitted as a small writing desk complete with pigeon holes and interior drawers, the centre drawer missing.
Walnut
French Mahogany Louis Philippe Secretary, Late 19th Century
Located in New York, NY
The top drawer front folds down and pulls out to reveal a leather writing surface, two drawers, and a pigeon hole. Splits in sides. Wear on leather surface.
Mahogany
French Post Office Filing Shelf A useful rustic piece in pine
Located in Godshill, Isle of Wight
French Post Office Filing Shelf A useful rustic piece in pine, a sectioned shelf with pigeon holes, tall ones wide ones and 2 drawer at the bottom The shelf is 26”high, 32” wide an...
Pine
19th Century Louis XVI Style Mahogany Bureau, After Francoise Linke
By François Linke
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A very good quality late 19th Century French Louis XVI style Mahogany tambour bureau, having a marble top with a brass gallery. Pigeon hole compartments and drawers within, gilded om...
Mahogany
18th Century George II Period Bureau Cabinet
Located in Gloucestershire, GB
The moulded cornice above a pair of mirror panelled doors opening to an adjustable shelf section, the hinged fall below opening to an arrangement of pigeon holes, small drawers, and ...
Walnut
Italian Neoclassical Walnut Hinged Secretary / Bookcase on Fluted Legs, C. 1780
Located in Charleston, SC
Italian Neoclassical Walnut hinged slant front secretary / bookcase with molded edge cornice, flanking carved incised pinwheels, upper hinged doors with interior shelving, central in...
Brass, Wrought Iron
Long Gothic Carved Oak Wall Shelf with storage
Located in Godshill, Isle of Wight
Long Gothic Carved Oak Wall Shelf with storage This charming long shelf has a geometric carved panel at the back of the centre pigeon hole with smaller shelves at each side, the s...
Oak
Georgian Mahogany Slant Front Bureau / Desk
Located in Woodbury, CT
Interior features prospect door with interior drawer, flanked by drawers and pigeon holes on each side. Original bracket feet.
Leather, Mahogany
18th Century William & Mary Walnut Bureau
Located in Gloucestershire, GB
The fitted interior with pigeon holes and drawers including two unusual secret drawers with oak springs.
Walnut
Regency Rosewood Secretaire Side Cabinet/Chiffoneer
Located in Folkestone, GB
A superior quality and unusual Regency rosewood Side Cabinet, the top drawer with fold-down, leather-lined front, fully fitted with drawers and pigeon holes. below are a pair of silk...
Rosewood
English Chippendale Mahogany Blind Door Secretary With Bookcase, Circa 1775
Located in Charleston, SC
Lower case has a slant front desk with fitted interior drawers, pigeon holes over six graduated drawers with the original brasses and bracket feet. 18th Century.
Brass
18th Century Swedish Baroque Slant Front Secretaire
Located in Charleston, SC
18th century Swedish secretaire, from Baroque period, circa 1750 in original gorgeous blue/green patinated color with slant front desk with interior features numerous small drawers ...
Bronze
$1,312Sale Price|25% Off
Antique Queen Anne Secretary Desk 19th Century
Located in Fulton, CA
Fitted interior with pigeon hole and drawer storage. Nice glow to finish and patina.
Mahogany
19c. French Parquetry Secretaire / Commode
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Secretaire, having notched marble top with 3/4 pierced bronze gallery, the top drawer opens to a writing surface and inside, an arrangement of pigeon holes and two central drawers; t...
Bronze
Clerks Desk Restaurant Greeting Station, Greeter A very neat Front of House Rec
Located in Godshill, Isle of Wight
Clerks Desk Restaurant Greeting Station, Greeter A very neat Front of House Reception Greeter, the greeting desk has a sloping lift up storage compartment with pigeon holes, and is ...
Pine
Antique 18th Century Rosewood Bureau Bookcase
Located in Suffolk, GB
The exquisite base having an exceptional cross banded fall opening to reveal an outstandingly designed and crafted fully fitted interior with drawers including secret drawers, pigeon...
Other
Fine George III Flame-Figured Mahogany Secretaire Cabinet
Located in New York, NY
The arched pediment centered by paneled roundel, over two glazed doors with pointed astragals opening to a chartreuse silk-lined interior with shelves; the lower part with a pullout ...
Brass
$1,800Sale Price|20% Off
Antique Eastlake Incised Walnut and Burl Slant Front Secretary, circa 1890
Located in Big Flats, NY
An antique Eastlake secretary offers paneled walnut construction with upper having shaped crest surmounting shelf and slant front opening to writing desk and storage compartments and...
Burl, Walnut
American Hepplewhite Birch Fall Front Inlaid Desk. Circa 1810
Located in Charleston, SC
American Hepplewhite birch fall front desk with carved hinged molded edge top, fitted interior consisting of seven drawers over seven pigeon holes, with a leather writing surface. L...
Brass
French Brass Inlaid Ladies Bureau Desk
Located in Swadlincote, GB
A top quality French rosewood brass inlaid desk, with tambour front, you have to pull open the drawer to release the tambour and then fold over the original velvet writing surface, l...
Brass
$65,893Sale Price|36% Off
Large Mahogany Chippendale Period Breakfront Bookcase
Located in Brighton, Sussex
The central drawer opens to reveal a secretaire with drawers and pigeon holes. The cupboards beneath each with adjustable shelves.
Mahogany
18th Century Queen Anne Period Walnut Double Dome Bureau Bookcase
Located in Brighton, Sussex
The mirror doors open to reveal adjustable shelves, pigeon holes and drawers. The fall front opens to reveal the same layout as above and a well beneath the inset leather writing sur...
Walnut
$1,153Sale Price|20% Off
Continental Oak Bureau
Located in Cheshire, GB
Continental oak bureau, the serpentine shaped top to the fall front opening to reveal a fitted interior, of draws and pigeon holes surrounding a large writing surface with pull-out c...
Oak
Free Standing Mahogany English Regency Tambour Roll Top Writing Desk
Located in Kastrup, DK
Tambour top rolls back to reveal a fitted interior with drawers, pigeon holes and a slant lid leather writing surface.
Brass
$8,236Sale Price|20% Off
French 19th Century Ladies bureau, circa 1880
Located in Brighton, Sussex
Having glazed doors above, a fall front opening to reveal drawers and pigeon holes within and an inset velvet writing tablet, a Sevres style porcelain plaque with a romanic scene, ra...
Mahogany
American Federal Mahogany & Satinwood Butler's Desk with Paw Feet. NY, C. 1810
Located in Charleston, SC
American Federal mahogany butler's desk with a carved molded edge, three upper drawers with original brass knobs, sliding fall front interior desk with Satinwood drawers and pigeon h...
Brass
18th Century Georgian Oak Bureau
Located in Billingshurst, GB
The interior has eight drawers and one central door with two secret compartments and six pigeon’s holes for storage. The bureau stands on shaped bracket feet.
Oak
English Chippendale Mahogany Secretary / Bookcase with Interior Drawers, C. 1770
Located in Charleston, SC
English Chippendale mahogany slant front architects secretary / bookcase with a carved dentil molded edge cornice, upper flanking glass doors with interior adjustable shelves, centra...
Brass
An 18th Century George I Walnut & Feather Banded Fall Front Bureau Bookcase
Located in Basingstoke, Hampshire
Featuring a pair of mercury mirror doors framed by moulded gilt slip, enclosing shelves and pigeon holes above two candle slides. The bureau section with a dividing cross-grained wai...
Walnut
Walnut Slant Front Bureau/Desk
Located in Woodbury, CT
It has an attractive interior with block front and serpentine drawers beneath pigeon holes, flanking two columnar slides and a central cupboard space beneath two small drawers.
Walnut, Pine
George III Chinoiserie Bureau Bookcase
Located in London, GB
Below, a fall-front writing surface opens to a fitted interior complete with small drawers and pigeon holes while the lower section features four long drawers, all gracefully raised ...
Wood
$1,050Sale Price|30% Off
Antique Victorian Petite Oak Mirrored Slant Top Secretary Ladies Writing Desk
Located in Dayton, OH
Desk opens to a work surface and pigeon holes. A larger dovetailed serpentine cut drawer with turned pulls sits beneath the slant front.
Mirror, Oak
A Good Quality Edwardian Bureau Bookcase This is a lovely piece
Located in Godshill, Isle of Wight
A Good Quality Edwardian Bureau Bookcase This is a lovely piece the top part is an astral glazed shelved bookcase, and beneath there is a four drawer fall bureau with a delightfully...
Walnut
$2,360Sale Price|20% Off
Antique French Empire Flame Mahogany Abattant with Figural Ormolu 19thC
Located in Big Flats, NY
An antique French Empire abattant secretary offers flame mahogany construction with upper drawer over drop front desk opening to interior with pigeon holes and drawers, surmounting l...
Ormolu
Circa 1750 Early George III Period Slant Front Bureau Desk
Located in Chapel Hill, NC
The simple interior is refined & useful with 2 large & 4 smaller drawers below 8 pigeon holes. 36" w., 20.5" d., 40" h.
Wood, Oak
Regency Mahogany Secretaire Bookcase Desk Cabinet, 1800
Located in Potters Bar, GB
circa 1800 The interior having a tooled leather writing surface and an arrangement of drawers and pigeon holes. Original Brass locks. The top section having fully adjustable shelv...
Mahogany
Regency Revival Bureau Ladies Desk Mahogany Inlay 1890
Located in Potters Bar, GB
The Interior Having a Central inlaid Door, 2 Drawers and Shaped Pigeon Holes.
Mahogany
George III Mahogany Roll-Top Writing Table
Located in New York, NY
The rectangular writing table fitted with two frieze drawers and with pull-out candle slides to the sides; raised on square tapering legs ending in brass caps and casters; surmounted...
Brass
$19,768Sale Price|20% Off
19th Century Louis XVI Style Secretaire Cabinet
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A fine quality 19th century French Louis XVI style satinwood marquetry inlaid secretaire cabinet, with wonderful inlaid decoration to the fall front, opening to reveal a fitted inter...
Satinwood
English Chippendale Mahogany Swan Neck Inlaid Breakfront with Desk, Circa 1770
Located in Charleston, SC
English Chippendale mahogany swan neck breakfront with a carved molded edge cornice, centered carved foliage fret work, patera inlaid floral medallions, book matched mullion glass do...
Brass
Outstanding Quality Antique Chippendale Style Mahogany Bureau Bookcase
Located in Suffolk, GB
Outstanding quality antique chippendale style mahogany bureau bookcase having a carved and gilded swan-neck pediment above a pair of mahogany doors with mirror plates and a carved gi...
Other
19th Century George IV Yew Wooden Secretaire Bookcase
Located in Gloucestershire, GB
The lower part having a hinged fall enclosing a fitted interior with small drawers and pigeon holes. Also having a cupboard below fitted with sliding trays enclosed by a pair of moul...
Yew
18th c. English Architect's Desk/Library Table
Located in Greenwich, CT
Very fine English George III country house mahogany architect's desk/library table having richly grained single board top with molded edge over single wide drawer with pull out and d...
Mahogany
Unusual Antique George lII Mahogany and Oak Desk
Located in Suffolk, GB
Unusual Antique George lII mahogany and oak desk having a quality mahogany writing fall opening to reveal a fitted interior with pigeon holes and six working drawers above a kneehole...
Oak
Sheraton Revival Cylinder Bureau, circa 1890
By Sheraton Revival
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A very good quality late 19th century satinwood Sheraton revival cylinder bureau with ebony string inlay, having a three quarter brass gallery to the top, four mahogany lined frieze ...
Satinwood
American Federal Swirl Mahogany Butler's Desk New York, Circa 1800s
Located in Germantown, MD
An American Federal Swirl Mahogany Butler's Desk New York Circa late 18th Century to Early 19th Century , featuring three flawlessly working upper drawer, and A Abattant Door that o...
Brass
Early 19th Century English Regency Brass Inlaid Secretaire Chiffonier
Located in Dublin, IE
Profusely inlaid with engraved brass scrolling foliate and floral marquetry the rectangular top over a secretaire drawer enclosing four drawers, three pigeon holes and a gilt tooled ...
Brass
Unavailable
H 94.1 in W 88.59 in D 18.51 in
19th Century Painted Pine Solicitors Two Part Cupboard with Pigeon Holes
Located in Norwich, GB
19th century painted pine solicitors two part cupboard with pigeon holes.
Pine
Antique Tiger Oak Roll Top Pigeon Hole Cabinet c. 1920
Located in Westfield, MA
Beneath the roll-top, the cabinet is designed with a series of pigeon holes, ideal for organizing small items, documents, or collectibles.
Oak
Unavailable
H 59.75 in W 40.75 in D 20.25 in
George III period satinwood and tulipwood banded secretaire cabinet
By Gillows of Lancaster & London
Located in Fresno, CA
The cabinet drawers and pigeon holes all lined with mahogany, and the lower drawers lined with quarter-sawn oak.
A Stunning Inlaid Walnut Desk & Bookcase
Located in New York, NY
The double-domed cornice above a pair of conforming doors fitted with later beveled mirror plates and opening to an arrangement of pigeon holes and folio slides. The lower section f...
Brass
18th Century Reeded Gustavian Cupboard
Located in Pulborough, GB
A Gustavian cupboard from the 18th century with beautiful reeded doors with hinged front to form desk with pigeon hole storage.
Oak
A GEORGE III SECRETAIRE-BOOKCASE. ENGLISH, C. 1785
Located in New York, NY
IN TWO PARTS.THE ARCHED REVERSE-BREAKFRONT RECTANGULAR TOP WITH FINIALED FACETED DOMES RESTING ON RECTANGULAR BASES AT EACH SIDE, THE CONFORMING CORNICE PAINTED WITH FLORAL GARLANDS ...
Bronze
Unavailable
H 55.12 in W 32.29 in D 14.18 in
French Tulipwood Amaranth and Marquetry Louis XVI Secretaire À Abattant
Located in Nice, Cote d' Azur
Moulded marble top, above a frieze drawer, a drop-front enclosing pigeon holes flanked by six drawers, the double doors with shelve and coffer, on short cabriole legs with ormolu sab...
Wood
Louise Majorelle Bonheur Du Jour In Rosewood
Located in London, GB
A Fine Ladies writing desk in rosewood with inlays of Mother of Pearl and decorative woods enclosing pigeon holes and with cantilevered drawers to either side.
Rosewood
English Bureau Desk with Inlay
Located in Athens, GA
English bureau desk with crotched mahogany fall front, original brass pulls, inlaid interior pigeon holes and door, great color, good size, brass escutcheons.
Mahogany
Mahogany Rosewood George II Bureau Cabinet
Located in Nettlebed, Oxfordshire
The upper section has urn finials and a domed broken architectural cornice centred by a carved crest above two arched glazed panel doors which open to reveal 45 drawers and nineteen ...
18th Century Georgian 'Plum Pudding' Mahogany Bureau Desk
Located in Newcastle Upon Tyne, GB
The interior has a leather covered writing surface, seven drawers and eight pigeon holes with a central locking door that hides a drawer and two more pigeon holes.
Mahogany, Oak
Unavailable
H 96 in W 39 in D 23 in
Superb William & Mary Period Walnut Domed Bureau Bookcase with Mirror Plates
Located in Hungerford, Berkshire
The twin mirrored doors open to reveal a top part with drawers, pigeon holes and adjustable shelving. The base with an interior well, pigeon holes, drawers and secret drawers.
Walnut
Unavailable
H 42.92 in W 42.92 in D 22.45 in
Late George III Period Cylinder Top Mahogany Desk Desk Attributed to Gillows
By Gillows of Lancaster & London
Located in South Croydon, GB
The cylinder opens to reveal an interior of drawers, pigeon holes and a rising writing area with the original black leather.
Mahogany
Bureau/Writing Desk Walnut Biedermeier, circa 1840
Located in Uppingham, GB
Roll top front, opening to a draw out sliding desk surface, with central cupboard flanked by two columns, pigeon holes and various drawers. Three larger drawers beneath decorated wi...
Walnut
Decorated Bureau Cabinet, Piedmont, circa 1680
Located in London, GB
The cabinet with a double squared-arch top above a pair of mirrored doors with an interior arrangement of drawers and pigeon holes, a wide slide beneath, above a bureau fall with b...
George II Cuban Mahogany Secretaire Chest on chest
Located in Uppingham, Rutland
The base with three drawers, a secretaire drawer opening to reveal pigeon holes, further drawers and a central cupboard with secret compartments.
Mahogany
George II Period Mahogany Bureau of Small-Scale
By Thomas Chippendale
Located in Fresno, CA
The sloping fall front enclosing four shaped pigeon holes and seven small drawers, all above four long graduated drawers surmounting shaped bracket feet, circa 1750.
Victorian Mahogany Roll Top Bureau
Located in Edinburgh, GB
With a carved three quarter gallery with gadrooned fore-edge above a cylinder top opening to a configuration of pigeon holes and drawers. With a pullout / pull-out slide with tooled ...
Mahogany
William and Mary Period Walnut Double Dome Bureau Bookcase
Located in Witney, OXFORDSHIRE
The crossbanded double feather banded fall opens to a well with secret compartments, concave and double concave small drawers with more secret compartments and a central double ogee ...
Walnut
George III Mahogany Secretaire Bookcase
Located in London, GB
The secretaire fall enclosing an arrangement of drawers and pigeon holes, above three long drawers, raised on bracket feet.
Glass, Mahogany
Bureau bookcase (cassettone-a-ribalta-con-alzata)
Located in New York, NY
This rococo slant-front secretary is in two parts, with a shaped rectangular top with an arched central cornice flanked by scrolls above two engraved glazed cupboard doors, the arche...
Walnut, Fruitwood
Secretaire Cabinet
Located in Toronto, ON
The bottom section having a pull-out drawer concealing a leather writing surface, and various small drawers and pigeon holes above three graduated drawers.Raised on shaped bracket feet.
Wood
Unavailable
H 57.49 in W 47.25 in D 13.78 in
Art Deco Cabinet Masion Dominique Provenance Bibury Court Gloucestershire
By Dominique
Located in London, GB
Art Deco Bureau cabinet with beautiful parquetry walnut doors, raised on stepped block feet, the top curving up with inlaid pewter band, bronze door handles, the interior pigeon hole...
Bronze, Pewter
George III Mahogany Bureau Bookcase
Located in Towcester, Northamptonshire
The upper part with projecting breakfront cornice and dentil molding, above a pair of paneled doors enclosing adjustable shelves, the lower part with a fall enclosing eight drawers a...
Mahogany
English Georgian Cylinder Bureau Writing Desk Chest
Located in Newcastle upon Tyne, GB
The rectangular top with inlaid marquetry panel above a tambour front enclosed a fitted interior comprising tooled leather writing surface, arrangement of drawers and pigeon holes. F...
Mahogany
Unavailable
H 37.5 in W 32.5 in D 19.5 in
George II Period Oak Slant Front Desk with Walnut Inlays. English, circa 1740
Located in New York, NY
Fine George II walnut-inlaid oak slant-front bureau, the hinged front opening to reveal a writing surface and fitted interior with pigeon holes, small drawers and a sliding panel ope...
Brass
18thC Glazed Mahogany Library Bookcase
By Gillows of Lancaster & London
Located in Grange-Over-Sands, GB
The cupboard doors cover pigeon holes, the labels show an interesting history.
Mahogany
George II Mahogany Bureau
Located in Norwich, Norfolk
The interior featuring five drawers and pigeon holes. This piece is of a very good color.
Mahogany
Writing Table, Late 19th Century Mahogany, Sheraton Revival
By Sheraton Revival
Located in Uppingham, GB
Pierced brass gallery above a tambour roll front which opens to show a well fitted interior, with pigeon holes, drawers, a pull out work surface that has a leather tilting writing/re...
Mahogany
Regency Mahogany Secretaire Bookcase
Located in Norwich, Norfolk
The fall front revealing a secretaire with an arrangement of drawers and pigeon holes. The two astragal glazed doors opening to reveal two fully adjustable shelves.
Mahogany
Of all the vintage storage cabinets and antique case pieces that have become popular in modern interiors over the years, dressers, credenzas and cabinets have long been home staples, perfect for routine storage or protection of personal items.
In the mid-19th century, cabinetmakers would mimic styles originating in the Louis XIV, Louis XV and Louis XVI eras for their dressers, bookshelves and other structures, and, later, simpler, streamlined wood designs allowed these “case pieces” or “case goods” — any furnishing that is unupholstered and has some semblance of a storage component — to blend into the background of any interior.
Mid-century modern furniture enthusiasts will cite the tall modular wall units crafted in teak and other sought-after woods of the era by the likes of George Nelson, Poul Cadovius and Finn Juhl. For these highly customizable furnishings, designers of the day delivered an alternative to big, heavy bookcases by considering the use of space — and, in particular, walls — in new and innovative ways. Mid-century modern credenzas, which, long and low, evolved from tables that were built as early as the 14th century in Italy, typically have no legs or very short legs and have grown in popularity as an alluring storage option over time.
Although the name immediately invokes images of clothing, dressers were initially created in Europe for a much different purpose. This furnishing was initially a flat-surfaced, low-profile side table equipped with a few drawers — a common fixture used to dress and prepare meats in English kitchens throughout the Tudor period. The drawers served as perfect utensil storage. It wasn’t until the design made its way to North America that it became enlarged and equipped with enough space to hold clothing and cosmetics. The very history of case pieces is a testament to their versatility and well-earned place in any room.
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