A wardrobe is 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 between one and four doors, and sometimes have fitted drawers in the centre section and hanging space on either wing. The doors are often panelled, with a decorative figured timber panel surrounded by a moulded frame. The clothes hangers hung on rails or hooks, usually facing the front. Antique wardrobes are often too shallow to fit standard size wire hangers comfortably side on.

A Beaconsfield wardrobe is the term used to describe an Edwardian period wardrobe that has an open storage area in the centre top section, usually backed by a mirror, with externally visible drawers below.

Wardrobes have been made in most of the usual more...

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Quality 4 piece bedroom suite. Edwardian Queensland maple…

Edwardian Queensland Maple 4-Piece Bedroom Suite

Quality 4 piece bedroom suite. Edwardian Queensland maple comprising dressing table with fitted drawers, high, carved fluted mirror and side drawers, cupboard doors with high relief joinery and floral centre panels. Nickel plated brass pulls; matching…

Vintage maple wardrobe 127 cm wide, 50 cm deep, 199 cm high

Maple Wardrobe - Vintage Style

Vintage maple wardrobe 127 cm wide, 50 cm deep, 199 cm high

A 19th century mirror door armoire, the top surmounted with…

Rococo Walnut Armoire with Birdseye Maple Interior

A 19th century mirror door armoire, the top surmounted with rococco carvings, standing on short carved escargot legs, in book matched walnut veneer, the interior lined in birdseye maple. Height 255 cm, width 104 cm, depth 50 cm

Anthony Hordern & Sons Queensland maple wardrobe early 20th…

Antique Queensland Maple Wardrobe with Brass Plaque

Anthony Hordern & Sons Queensland maple wardrobe early 20th century, with keys, brass makers plaque inside door, 236 cm high, 164 cm long, 56.5 cm deep

Peter Gay wardrobe, oak and burr maple with carved panelled…

Edwardian Oak Wardrobe with Carved Doors and Mirror

Peter Gay wardrobe, oak and burr maple with carved panelled doors, and central bevelled Mirrror, Edwardian with brass honey stick drop handles

Wardrobe: by Svensson, Queensland maple 2 door with fitted…

Early 20th Century Queensland Maple Wardrobe

Wardrobe: by Svensson, Queensland maple 2 door with fitted interior, early 20th century. Height 189 cm, width 112 cm, depth 61 cm

An unusual Victorian mahogany secretaire breakfront robe, 19th…

Victorian Mahogany Secretaire Breakfront Robe

An unusual Victorian mahogany secretaire breakfront robe, 19th century, with a generous stepped cornice above a central open bookshelf with a fallfront below opening to a tooled writing plane and a beautiful bird's eye maple fitted interior with…

A Continental Art Noveau Ash and marquetry armoire in the…

Art Nouveau Marquetry Armoire

A Continental Art Noveau Ash and marquetry armoire in the manner of Emile Galle, late 19th century, the moulded and panelled cornice above an asymmetrical arrangement of a tall door enclosing a hanging space, a shorter mirrored door enclosing shelves, and…