Chinese 9 Drawer Dresser

Nine drawers, and the middle three have decided to step forward.

This 9 drawer dresser is a contemporary piece from China, in distressed elmwood, and a Primitive exclusive. A worn coat of pale blue covers the case, with darker tones collecting in the moldings. The center column of three drawers bows outward between flat ones, all with drop ring pulls. A dentil band runs beneath a pale top, and the square legs taper with fluted sides. Dressers like this hold clothing and linen in bedrooms, and the bowed front and fluted legs borrow from neoclassical furniture made for grand houses. Sixty-five and a half inches long, 20 deep, 34 high.

It has the air of having been somewhere cold and well mannered.