Cabinet Doors & Fronts · Alpine Chalet
Carved Walnut Chest with Arcaded Front (17th century)
A 17th-century walnut chest with an arcaded front of carved arches and moulded panels, about five feet wide.
Design characteristics
Storage chests were the most important furniture in early Alpine and Central European houses. This walnut chest uses an arcade of small arches across its front, a motif borrowed from architecture. Arcaded fronts are a handsome option for a window seat, a storage bench or a set of cabinet doors in a mountain home, and the arches can be machined as applied mouldings.
Classification
- Style
- Alpine Chalet
- Category
- Cabinet Doors & Fronts
- Material
- Walnut
- Motifs
- Arcaded panel, Chip carving
- Date
- 17th century
- Recorded medium
- Walnut
- Dimensions
- Overall: 39 × 59 × 24 in. (99.1 × 149.9 × 61 cm)
- Evidence
- Documented historical object
Architectural context
Wood-lined Stuben, carved and painted pine, and benches built into the walls. Tyrol, Switzerland and Bavaria · vernacular, 1300s onward.
