Chiswell Oak Cabinet - 2 Doors, 149x104x420cm

• Oak - Native to Europe and England, oak has been used for joinery, furniture and building since the beginning of the medieval civilisation. It is a pale yellow in colour when freshly cut and darkens with age to a mid brown colour.
  
  Oak as a furniture timber was superceded by walnut in the 17th century, and in the 18th century by mahogany,
  
  Semi-fossilised bog oak is black in colour, and is found in peat bogs where the trees have fallen and been preserved from decay by the bog. It is used for jewellery and small carved trinkets.
  
  Pollard oak is taken from an oak that has been regularly pollarded, that is the upper branches have been removed at the top of the trunk, result that new branches would appear, and over time the top would become ball-like. . When harvested and sawn, the timber displays a continuous surface of knotty circles. The timber was scarce and expensive and was used in more expensive pieces of furniture in the Regency and Victorian periods.
• Chiswell Furniture - A furniture design and manufacturing firm with offices in Guildford NSW. Their timber furniture range covers Australian modernist styles to abbreviated period reproduction styles. Chiswell Bros. began in 1920 supplying furniture for Grace Bros. working with solid timber and veneers in period styles. Their range later sold to the major Sydney department stores.
  
  Source: Design & Art Australia Online

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