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We bought an antique display cabinet yesterday. It's a Deco display cabinet. It may even be a piece of wartime utility furniture (how cool is that!) It's very plain and boxy, with absolutely no inclination to be mistaken for an 18th century piece. I love it.
And it's made of solid oak. It's the sort of thing one can imagine George Orwell having in the house. Plain, unpretentious, honest and as English as a wall of sandbags.
It only cost us £75. If we'd have wanted a poncey Edwardian display cabinet with pseudo-18th century curves and pflumpfy bits it would have cost us more than five times as much.
And it's made of solid oak. It's the sort of thing one can imagine George Orwell having in the house. Plain, unpretentious, honest and as English as a wall of sandbags.
It only cost us £75. If we'd have wanted a poncey Edwardian display cabinet with pseudo-18th century curves and pflumpfy bits it would have cost us more than five times as much.
