Regency - wardrobes
Wardrobe. A cupboard with space for hanging clothes. As an item of furniture as opposed to a separate closet, the wardrobe did not generally appear until the early 19th century. Until then, clothes had been stored in clothes presses.
Wardrobes may have single doors, sometimes mirrored, sometimes double doors, often double-heightened with several drawers beneath the cupboard. Many breakfront wardrobes have survived, with a chest of drawers in the middle section and hanging space on either wing. The clothes hangers hung on rails or hooks, usually facing the front. Antique wardrobes are often too shallow to fit hangers comfortably side on.
A Beaconsfield wardrobe is the term used to describe an Edwardian period wardrobe that has an open storage area, usually backed by a mirror.
Wardrobes have been made in most of the usual furniture timbers oak, pine, cedar, mahogany, walnut, satinwood and redwood and the styles range from the plain and simple to the elaborate and ostentatious. Many were made as part of a bedroom set together with matching dressing table and washstand. Some wardrobes were fitted with small drawers, shelves and cupboards down one side.
Wardrobes may have single doors, sometimes mirrored, sometimes double doors, often double-heightened with several drawers beneath the cupboard. Many breakfront wardrobes have survived, with a chest of drawers in the middle section and hanging space on either wing. The clothes hangers hung on rails or hooks, usually facing the front. Antique wardrobes are often too shallow to fit hangers comfortably side on.
A Beaconsfield wardrobe is the term used to describe an Edwardian period wardrobe that has an open storage area, usually backed by a mirror.
Wardrobes have been made in most of the usual furniture timbers oak, pine, cedar, mahogany, walnut, satinwood and redwood and the styles range from the plain and simple to the elaborate and ostentatious. Many were made as part of a bedroom set together with matching dressing table and washstand. Some wardrobes were fitted with small drawers, shelves and cupboards down one side.
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A large Regency mahogany inverted breakfront wardrobe, English circa 1825, 230 x 250 x 68 cm
A Regency mahogany linen press, English circa 1820, 215 x 130 x 57 cm
A late Regency Scottish mahogany linen press the moulded cornice with later central fan above a cross banded panelled frieze above two flame mahogany panelled doors with raised moulded decoration enclosing hanging space to one side and slides to the other …
A Scottish Regency mahogany linen press, the shaped cornice with ebony inlay and circular patera above a pair of cupboard doors with twisted columns, enclosing shelves above two short and two long drawers, raised on turned feet. Width 124 cm x.…
An imposing Regency Channel Islands mahogany and brass inlaid linen press, the swan neck pediment with carved foliate decoration above a brass inlaid frieze and cut corner panelled doors flanked by columns carved in low relief and enclosing three trays,…
A fine Regency period mahogany wardrobe, in the manner of Gillows of Lancaster, the moulded cornice above four Gothic arched doors with trefoil spandrels and cross banded panels and applied trefoil pilasters,…
Regency mahogany two door wardrobe of the Sheraton period, with fine marquetry inlay and crossbanding, bracket feet and two cockbeaded drawers to the base
Regency mahogany gentleman's wardrobe with a shaped cornice, three panel doors, a bank of four lower drawers, a lower panel door and a plinth base