Wood Jacobean Chest

A chest that treats every drawer as a small exercise in geometry.

This Jacobean chest is made of oak. Chests of drawers like this stored clothing and linen in bedrooms, and the Jacobean name points to a style known for geometric moldings like these. Four rows of drawers rise from a stepped base on short square feet. Elongated octagons alternate with stepped, cross-shaped frames across the fronts, all in dark oak with lighter edges where the moldings catch the eye. Small brass drops serve as pulls, and a projecting cornice caps the top. Forty-seven inches high, 43.5 long and 20 deep.

It stands very straight. It was that kind of style.