Art Deco Cabinet with Interior Drawers

The doors form a mirror image, and neither one appears willing to blink.

This Art Deco cabinet with interior drawers dates to the early 20th century, in burl wood veneer and wood solids. Art Deco cabinets like this were made for fashionable homes of the period, storing drinks, linens or papers behind figured veneers that turned flat surfaces into pattern. Two doors here are matched so the swirling figure opens outward from the center, like an inkblot in amber and brown. A canted pillar stands at the end of the case under its own small cap, and the whole rests on heavy angular plinths. Nearly 49 inches long and 27 high.

Open it for the drawers. Close it for the view.