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The chest drawers were and are called by many names: LAMSAS database contains 37 answers to the request to name a chest of drawers, with "bureau" and "dresser" most popular at 52.5% and 17.5% respectively. [5] Chippendale called them "commode tables" or "commode bureau tables", Hepplewhite used the terms
A white wooden drawer Filing card drawer. A drawer (/ d r ɔːr / ⓘ DROR) is a box-shaped container inside a piece of furniture that can be pulled out horizontally to access its contents. Drawers are built into numerous types of furniture, including cabinets, chests of drawers (bureaus), desks, and the like.
A chest of drawers in a bedroom; A dressing table; A Welsh dresser (often called a "china hutch" in the United States), used to store and display crockery and cutlery in a kitchen, scullery or dining room
The most common item of campaign furniture is the chest of drawers, often referred to as a military chest or campaign chest. Campaign chests' primary wood was often mahogany, teak, or camphor, although cedar, pine and other woods were also used. The dominant type breaks down into two sections, and has removable feet.
A chest (also called coffer or kist) is a form of furniture typically of a rectangular structure with four walls and a removable or hinged lid, used for storage, usually of personal items. The interior space may be subdivided.
A chifforobe (/ ˈ ʃ ɪ f ə ˌ r oʊ b /), also chiffarobe or chifferobe, is a closet-like piece of furniture that combines a long space for hanging clothes (that is, a wardrobe or armoire) with a chest of drawers. [1] Typically the wardrobe section runs down one side of the piece, while the drawers occupy the other side. [2]
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Often, there are no additional shelves or drawers above the section that is enclosed by the desktop. Thus, the fall-front desk is identical in shape to a Bargueño desk , which would have been placed on a stand of drawers, or more precisely to the form known as desk on a chest or as "chest-on chest".