Deco

[poliphilo]

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.

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[shewhomust.livejournal.com]

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.

Are you sure? My experience is that you have to pay extra for something plain and undecorated...

Congratulations on your purchase, though: how nice to be able to sort through your Things and decide what to arrange where.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

We looked at other, fancier cabinets while we were there and they were priced at just under £500.

[lblanchard.livejournal.com]

"pflumpfy bits" ???

I know what it means, I think.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

It's a made-up word. Approximately 4 hours old. :)

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Thanks....

(I'll let you into a secret: I'm getting a little bored with photography.)