Kettle Victorian Painted Pine Five Drawer Chest
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Product code: S0062
Dimensions:
Depth: 485mm
Width: 1070mm
Height: 1020mm
Further product information:
Kettle Victorian Painted Pine Five Drawer Chest:The collection comes fully assembled; some items may need basic assembly to allow for delivery.
KT Victorian Hand Carved Painted Bedroom Furniture
The Victorian Collection is a fully assembled range of furniture constructed of solid pine. It is painted and then completed with a lightly distressed finish.
Quality features include dovetail joints in drawer construction and the use of timber panelling for drawer bases and cabinet backs. Doors and large panels are decorated with curved mouldings, each finished with hand carved embellishments. These design motifs are repeated on cabinet edges and elsewhere.
This is a fully assembled range although some larger items such as beds and wardrobes may be partially dismantled to facilitate delivery.
Knots are the marks where a limb or branch has been cut off when trees are converted into planks. In new timber, nutrients in the form of resin may continue to pass through these points for some considerable time, causing 'bleeding' through to the surface. This is a natural process and is more noticeable with painted furniture.
1904 Chest of Drawers History
The simple wooden chest was the multi-purpose storage solution from the medieval age. Later, during the Tudor and Stuart period, the invention of the dovetail joint meant drawers could be made in such a way that they did not easily fall apart. Drawers could then be added to the base of chests, creating mule chests, and gradually the remainder of the open chest was also then replaced with drawers - resulting in the 'chest of drawers' we know today
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Painted shabby chic furniture, also sometimes referred to as French-style or French painted furniture originated in Britain in the 1950s and 1960s when taxation of the owners of grand properties was greatly increased. This, together with a shortage of cheap skilled labour, meant that many of the larger, more affluent homes could no longer be maintained to the necessary standard.
It gradually became acceptable and then positively fashionable, to have interiors furnished with elegant pieces that were not just patinated with age but had a distinctly worn appearance – and the shabby chic look was born. Although this applied to both painted and wood finished furniture as the look became more fashionable ‘shabby chic’ furniture was increasingly sourced from France where painted Rococo styles had remained popular amongst the rural population long after its passing elsewhere.