wedding wardrobe

This softwood farmhouse wardrobe with a beautiful honey-colored patina is a mystery. If it weren’t for the date on the frieze, I would date the wardrobe to “around 1800.” The frieze features the initials “M” and “A,” a flower, and the year “1896.” This suggests that an existing, high-quality wardrobe was repurposed as a wedding wardrobe roughly 100 years later. The carved elements mentioned above gave it a personal touch. The carved bands in the door panels, with their flowers in the corners, reflect the character of a wedding wardrobe. The same is true of the pilasters with their festive carved motifs: a floral tendril grows from a rocaille with a stem. The medallion-shaped cutouts in the pilasters and the frieze emphasize the cabinet’s elegance. The architectural structure reinforces the piece’s significance: the multi-tiered, elegantly shaped cornice; the frieze; the main body, defined at both the top and bottom by a delicate molded strip; and finally, the lower section with a drawer, whose handles are accentuated by applied diamond motifs. A multi-tiered, profiled molding forms the top edge. The wardrobe stands on flattened ball feet. A stylistic wedding wardrobe that equally conveys quality, warmth, and lightness.