PD Global Auckland pine or painted glazed bookcase, narrow
Price: £287.00
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Product code: LER188
Dimensions:
Depth: 400mm
Width: 640mm
Height: 1900mm
Further product information:
PD Global Auckland pine or painted glazed bookcase, narrow:The Auckland collection of bedroom furniture has a contemporary look. Sleek, minimal styling is punctuated with the unusual feature of a curved edge to the base fronts and sides of cabinets.
Flexibility is a key requirement of contemporary design and the Auckland collection embraces this concept, being offered in a choice of no less than 10 different finishes, suiting a wide range of moods and tastes.
PD Global Auckland bedroom furniture
The Auckland collection of bedroom furniture has a contemporary look. Sleek, minimal styling is punctuated with the unusual feature of a curved edge to the base fronts and sides of cabinets.
Flexibility is a key requirement of contemporary design and the Auckland collection embraces this concept, being offered in a choice of no less than 10 different finishes, suiting a wide range of moods and tastes.
PLEASE NOTE: Painted finishes PT1, PT2, PT3, PT4, PT5, PT6 and PT7 are special order items. See our FAQs for more information on special orders. For more information on the finishes, use
this link.
It is a fully assembled range although some larger items such as beds and wardrobes may be partially dismantled to facilitate delivery.
1504 Bookcases The History
The bookcase as it is recognised today should perhaps more correctly be known as the bookshelf.
Bookcases were actually enclosed cases used for protecting the books that were painstakingly written and then illustrated by hand up to and during the Middle Ages.
The development of printing press was the Internet revolution of its day. Now knowledge could be captured on paper and easily distributed. Critics who were used to knowledge being passed on from person to person were worried that if a book caught fire or was damaged, the knowledge would be lost forever, whereas committing knowledge to memory was much safer and more reliable.
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It might be supposed that the Gothic Revival during the Victorian period dictated that dark oak was the universal finish for the furniture of the well-to-do, but famous designers of the period such as William Burges (1827 – 1881) also created highly decorated painted furniture, often in styles of an imagined medieval age.