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The history of the chest of drawers
A dictionary from 1760 gives an amusing definition of the chest of drawers: it is a piece of furniture of very new invention which its convenience quickly made very common.

In reality, the chest of drawers, born from the need for rational storage, already existed in the 17th century. As for the word, it appears for the first time in 1708 in a letter from the Duke of Antin who declares having admired at Guillemart two chests of drawers in tortoiseshell and pewter veneer being made for the King's bedroom in Marly. Louis XIV period chest of drawers. A dictionary from 1760 gives an amusing definition of the chest of drawers: it is a piece of furniture of very new invention which its convenience quickly made very common. In reality, the chest of drawers, born from the need for rational storage, already existed in the 17th century.
As for the word, it appears for the first time in 1708 in a letter from the Duke of Antin who declares having admired at Guillemart two chests of drawers in tortoiseshell and pewter veneer being made for the King's bedroom at Marly. Louis XIV period chest of drawers Previously, we only talked about boxes with drawers. Until the 19th century, the chest of drawers was an expensive piece of furniture reserved for the aristocracy and the bourgeoisie, it hardly found its way into the homes of modest people. The so-called Louis XVI chest of drawers, with simple and refined forms, was born under Louis XV, in the middle of the 18th century after the discovery of the ruins of Herculaneum and Pompeii and the return to favor of the antique style. The book by the haberdasher Lazare Duvaux tells us that, in 1753, Madame de Pompadour ordered three Greek-style chests of drawers from him.
This simplification of forms will increase over the years until, in the last years of the reign, the jump inherited from the Transition period disappears. The bronzes are discreet. They are sometimes replaced by a simple copper rod. It must be said that as technology has progressed, assemblies no longer need to be hidden. The tapered legs are fluted, the spinning top legs indicating late manufacture. Another model of Louis XVI mahogany chest of drawers, the half-moon in the shape of a semi-circle. Louis XVI period mahogany half-moon chest of drawers, model which was generally intended to be leaned against a trumeau. The Louis XVI mahogany chest of drawers was very popular at the end of the 18th century and it was manufactured until 1820 using the same processes to the point that it is sometimes difficult to date it.
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