Chinese Flat File Side Cabinet with 6 Drawers

Six shallow drawers, for anyone whose important papers refuse to be folded.

This flat file side cabinet with 6 drawers comes from Hebei Province, China, and is contemporary, made of walnut. Flat files were designed to keep maps, drawings and prints lying level, the kind of storage an architect or a serious collector relies on. The walnut here is deep brown with a soft sheen. Mitered corners frame the drawers, each with a brass swing handle on round plates. The case stands on broad block legs. Twenty and a half inches high and twenty-five deep.

Most of us would fill it with chargers and regret.