STORE HOURS: Friday - Saturday: 10:30 - 5:00, Sunday: 12:00 - 4:00, or by appointment ~ 1415 Bayard Street, Baltimore, MD 21230
STORE HOURS: Friday - Saturday: 10:30 - 5:00, Sunday: 12:00 - 4:00, or by appointment ~ 1415 Bayard Street, Baltimore, MD 21230
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ABOUT OUR CHESTS OF DRAWERS The chest of drawers as we know it evolved from the trunk or blanket chest during the seventeenth century. First, drawers were added to the lower section of a trunk making a hybrid piece known appropriately as a mule chest. Then the lift top was eliminated and the chest of drawers emerged as a case with two, three, or more rows of drawers.
| "The earliest pine chests were mere boxes with hinged lids...As the type developed drawers were added between the well and the floor...The chest with drawers became a chest of drawers.'' |