English blouse furniture made of wood and brass

English blouse cabinet with 30 drawers in wood and brass. It rests on four legs simulating joined columns and small metal pads, with a support belt in imitation of logs. On this table a polished brass frame frames a sliding set of 30 mahogany drawers with brass handles. Storage cabinet intended by its size to be placed on a counter or chest of drawers, at support height, the quality of its materials evokes a world where the accessory was treated with luxury and intended to demonstrate the durability of things. If the furniture is English, we will find there a universe – certainly fantasized – where Evolve Jeeves and Hercule Poirot or other Mrs. Dalloway ... We will also think of the "Poor Blouse" of V. Larbaud. The fashion of department stores developed in Europe from the middle of the nineteenth century according to two axes, one turned towards a consumption that is certainly not mass, the other even more elitist. Where in the past the merchant had to go in person to his customer's home, and offer him an assortment, such as the craftsman - bootmaker, tailor, etc.-, the customer comes to the merchant who makes every effort to attract him. These reports, reversed, force the latter to adapt his "store", we no longer speak of a shop ... (the very term store, of Arabic origin, also referred to a place of storage, a warehouse.) which must seduce by presenting all the possible choices between price and qualities, in a flattering presentation for the product but also for the customer. The "buy-pleasure" effect is working to the fullest. We offer you here what to store shirts or underwear but also a souvenir of the ancient world, when you had time to choose, not on a tablet, but by palpating, smelling, looking at the materials, when all the senses participated in an "investment".

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