Built-ins & Bookcases · Denver Square
Corner China Closets C-703 and C-704, Curtis Woodwork (1926)
A page from the 1926 Curtis Woodwork catalog presenting 'new-old-fashioned' corner china closets, built-in cupboards with arched glazed upper doors.
Design characteristics
Curtis marketed these corner china closets as modern reproductions of old-time corner cupboards, built into the corners of a dining room. Each has a glazed upper section, sometimes with an arched top, over a paneled lower cupboard. A pair in opposite corners of a dining room was a common arrangement in houses of the 1910s and 1920s, and they remain one of the most useful built-ins for display and storage.
Classification
- Style
- Denver Square
- Category
- Built-ins & Bookcases
- Material
- Birch
- Motifs
- Corner cupboard, Arched glazing
- Published
- 1926
- Maker or designer
- Curtis Companies, Clinton, Iowa
- Evidence
- Period catalog illustration
Architectural context
Denver's foursquare: oak built-ins, colonnades and sturdy stock millwork. Denver, Colorado · c. 1890–1920.
