Kitchen Cabinets · English Country & Cottage
Pine Kitchen Dresser, Clitheroe Castle Museum
A pine kitchen dresser displayed at Clitheroe Castle Museum in Lancashire, England, with open plate shelves above a base of drawers and panelled cupboards.
Design characteristics
The pine dresser is the defining piece of the English country kitchen. This example has two open shelves with plate rails above a work surface, two drawers and four panelled cupboard doors below. It is practical and unpretentious, and the exposed pine has mellowed to a warm honey color. A built-in version is one of the most requested pieces for a farmhouse-style kitchen, and it fits naturally on a single wall or beside a range.
Classification
- Category
- Kitchen Cabinets
- Material
- Pine
- Motifs
- Plate rack, Dresser, Flat panel
- Photograph
- 2015
- Photographer
- Photograph by Mike Peel (www.mikepeel.net).
- Evidence
- Photograph of a documented interior or object
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons
Architectural context
Painted joinery, dressers and plate racks, plain paneling and beamed ceilings. England and Wales · vernacular, 1600s onward.
