Rare 19th c. Catalan Cupboard

From Besalú, a medieval stone town in Catalonia, this 19th-century cupboard carries the dark, hand-built character of the region's country furniture. The whole piece is painted a worn black, a small two-door cabinet up top beneath a carved, scalloped crest, with four open shelves below. The form is a Catalan one, a closed cabinet set over open shelves, so a household could keep what mattered behind doors and everything else within reach below. Sylvie stands it in a bedroom with books along the open shelves and the cabinet above kept for the things she would rather not leave out.

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