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Blanket Boxes, as the name indicates, were originally used to protect valuable and expensive blankets from damp – hence feet to keep them off the ground – and from the predations of moths and other insects.

As today, large wooden boxes weren't just used as blanket boxes. They were also known as coffers or chests which, with the addition of drawers, evolved into today's chest of drawers.

Ottomans were footstools, so called because 18th Century Europeans believed that reclining with the feet up was an oriental habit – and therefore of the Ottoman Empire. Hollow ‘Ottomans’ could also be used as Blanket Boxes.