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Antique Machinist Tool Chest

Antique Seven Drawer Mahogany Machinist's Chest c.1910-1925
Located in San Francisco, CA
ABOUT An antique Machinist's tool chest with round brass pulls, original label, two keys, seven
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Early 20th Century North American Industrial Antique Machinist Tool Chest

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Brass

Antique Seven Drawer Mahogany Machinist's Chest c.1910-1925
Antique Seven Drawer Mahogany Machinist's Chest c.1910-1925
$395 Sale Price
20% Off
H 11 in W 20.5 in D 8.5 in
Antique Eastlake Victorian Oak Wood 36 Drawer Machinist Chest Tool Parts Cabinet
Located in Philadelphia, PA
American Antique Eastlake Victorian Oak Wood 36 Drawer Machinist Chest Tool Parts Cabinet. Item
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Late 19th Century Unknown Industrial Antique Machinist Tool Chest

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Oak

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Antique Oak Machinist Tool Chest with Leather Handle C1920
Located in Big Flats, NY
Antique Oak Machinist Tool Chest with Leather Handle C1920 Measures - 15 3/4" x 20 1/2" x 9"
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Early 20th Century Antique Machinist Tool Chest

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Leather, Oak

Antique Five Drawer Mahogany Machinist's Chest c.1910-1925
Located in San Francisco, CA
ABOUT An antique Machinist's tool chest with round brass pulls, Five graduated drawers with
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Early 20th Century North American Industrial Antique Machinist Tool Chest

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Brass

19th Century Victorian Machinist's Tool Box
Located in Garnerville, NY
Old painted and distressed oak Late Victorian American machinist's tool box. Solid oak underneath
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Late 19th Century American Late Victorian Antique Machinist Tool Chest

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Brass

19th Century Victorian Machinist's Tool Box
19th Century Victorian Machinist's Tool Box
H 12.5 in W 18.673 in D 12.25 in
Large Antique Industrial Oak Machinist Tool Chest Cabinet
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Large, antique, industrial, turn of the century, oak, machinist tool chest cabinet features several
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1890s American Industrial Antique Machinist Tool Chest

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Metal

American Industrial Green Steel Metal 27 Drawer Machinist Tool Chest Cabinet
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Vintage American Industrial green steel metal 27 drawer machinist tool chest cabinet. Item features
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Early 20th Century North American Industrial Antique Machinist Tool Chest

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Metal, Steel

Amazing Handmade Machinists 75 Draw Oak Tool Chest
Located in Peekskill, NY
This is it best machinists tool chest we have ever found. It really shows the pride that both the
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Late 19th Century American Industrial Antique Machinist Tool Chest

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Oak

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Early 20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Antique Machinist Tool Chest

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Lacquer

Antique Industrial Jeweler's Bench Work Table #2
Located in Mexico City, CDMX
Circa 1930. We offer a most unique antique Mexican Industrial Jeweler's Bench Work Table with outstanding patina. The stool and the typewriter is not included.
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1930s Mexican Industrial Antique Machinist Tool Chest

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$1,500
H 42.92 in W 58.27 in D 23.63 in
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Located in Mexico City, CDMX
Circa 1930. We offer a most unique antique Mexican Industrial Jeweler's Bench Work Table with outstanding patina. The stool is not included.
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$1,500
H 41.74 in W 57.49 in D 24.81 in
Early 20th Century Wood Large French File Cabinet
Located in Barcelona, ES
Unearth the charm of a vintage file cabinet hailing from the early 20th century, an intriguing creation by an unknown French manufacturer. This exquisite piece carries the whispers o...
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Early 20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Antique Machinist Tool Chest

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Early 20th Century Wood Large French File Cabinet
Early 20th Century Wood Large French File Cabinet
$7,995
H 76.38 in W 63 in D 25.2 in
Early 20th C. Antique Dental Cabinet
Located in Mexico City, CDMX
Circa 1920. We offer this beautiful and amazing cabinet built for the medical field, specifically dentists. 11 drawers. Recently restored. All drawers open easily.
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1920s American Industrial Antique Machinist Tool Chest

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Pine

Early 20th C. Antique Dental Cabinet
Early 20th C. Antique Dental Cabinet
$3,000
H 44.49 in W 32.29 in D 14.97 in
Vintage Portuguese Spool Cabinet by Liz, 1950s
Located in Lisboa, PT
This vintage spool cabinet was produced in Portugal during the 1950s. It is made of wood with five drawers. Retains its original metal hand pulls. With Liz Company original logos and...
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1950s Portuguese Industrial Antique Machinist Tool Chest

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Metal

Vintage Portuguese Spool Cabinet by Liz, 1950s
Vintage Portuguese Spool Cabinet by Liz, 1950s
$1,177
H 10.83 in W 18.12 in D 13 in
Italian Walnut and Iron Pastaia Shop Cabinet with Nine Drawers and Glass Panels
Located in Atlanta, GA
An Italian walnut pastaia shop cabinet from the 20th century with nine drawers, glass panels and iron hardware. Crafted in Italy during the 20th century, this elegant walnut pastaia ...
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20th Century Italian Antique Machinist Tool Chest

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Iron

Wrought Iron Art Deco Pergola, France, 1920s
Located in Isle Sur La Sorgue, Vaucluse
Rare and very pretty octagonal Art Deco wrought iron pergola, decorated with geometric motifs. Riveted zinc roof. Original red paint.
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Early 20th Century French Art Deco Antique Machinist Tool Chest

Antique Majolica Adams & Bromley Pineapple Basketweave Sardine Fish Box 6"
By Adams & Bromley
Located in Dayton, OH
Antique Majolica Sardine fish box / lidded compote attributed to Adams & Bromley. It features a pineapple and basket weave design with Sardine lid handle and purple lavender interio...
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Late 19th Century Victorian Antique Machinist Tool Chest

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Majolica

Antique Majolica Adams & Bromley Pineapple Basketweave Sardine Fish Box 6"
Antique Majolica Adams & Bromley Pineapple Basketweave Sardine Fish Box 6"
$296 Sale Price
20% Off
H 3.5 in W 5.25 in D 6.25 in
Mogens Koch for Rud Radmussen Modular Library in Mahogany
By Mogens Koch, Rud Rasmussen
Located in Waalwijk, NL
Mogens Koch for Rud Rasmussen, modular book case or library, mahogany, Denmark, design 1928 Intriguing and substantial modular library by Danish designer Mogens Koch. This piece is ...
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1920s Danish Scandinavian Modern Antique Machinist Tool Chest

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Mahogany

Mogens Koch for Rud Radmussen Modular Library in Mahogany
Mogens Koch for Rud Radmussen Modular Library in Mahogany
$69,500
H 121.66 in W 179.53 in D 14.18 in
German Industrial Oak and Pine Apothecary Cabinet, Mid-20th Century
Located in Nijmegen, NL
This apothecary cabinet was made circa 1940s in Germany and was later used in a hardware store in Belgium until recently. It features 12 drawers with metal handles / name card holder...
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Mid-20th Century German Industrial Antique Machinist Tool Chest

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Oak, Pine

German Industrial Oak and Pine Apothecary Cabinet, Mid-20th Century
German Industrial Oak and Pine Apothecary Cabinet, Mid-20th Century
$1,183 Sale Price
27% Off
H 48.04 in W 32.29 in D 16.54 in
20th Century English Mahogany Sixty Six Drawers Haberdashery, c.1920
By Harris & Sheldon
Located in Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent
Antique early-20th century English hand crafted mahogany haberdashery, this piece has sixty small open drawers protected by sliding glass doors on ball baring bronze runners. It also...
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20th Century British Antique Machinist Tool Chest

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Brass

Late 19th Century Massive 63 Drawer Printers Cabinet
Located in Dekalb, IL
This huge cabinet served it's first life in a printmaker's shop housing a number of fonts, tools, and supplies sometime during the mid to late 1800s. The cabinet has a variety of dra...
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1890s American Antique Machinist Tool Chest

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Wood

20th Century English Mahogany Forty Drawers Haberdashery Cabinet, c.1920
Located in Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent
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20th Century British Antique Machinist Tool Chest

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Glass, Wood

Small English Bamboo Bookcase w/ Painted Wood Shelves & Brass Finials
Located in Clifton Forge, VA
What a nice decorative and functional small bookcase with a bamboo frame, white painted wooden shelves and brass finials on all four corners. The bookcase is very simple in style wit...
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Early 20th Century English Antique Machinist Tool Chest

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A Close Look at Industrial Furniture

Industrial floor lamps, bar stools, desks and other industrial-style furnishings have experienced a resurgence in popularity with the rise of interest in minimalist design.

It's a look that celebrates the past even as it suggests vigor, productivity and brawn. The newly chic industrial style of decor repurposes the simple, sturdy furniture of an earlier world of commerce — brushed-metal storage cabinets and display shelves, task lamps and pendant lights with enameled shades, work tables with worn wooden tops and cast-iron bases — and couples them with aesthetic touches emblematic of energy and optimism, from bright upholstery fabrics to flowers.

The rise in prominence of the industrial style has come hand-in-hand with the residential repurposing of former manufacturing and warehouse districts throughout the United States, Canada and Europe. In many loft apartments created in shuttered factories, the architectural envelope has been left intact.

Industrial-style interiors feature elements like raw brick walls, exposed steel beams and oak floors whose history is written in every pit and gouge. Iron and glass transom windows give definition and interest to small kitchen areas anchored by kitchen islands made of marble, steel and brass, while taxidermy or vintage neon signs serve as wall art in living rooms dotted with leather club chairs. Patina is the keynote to a decor in sync with such surroundings. 

On 1stDibs you will find industrial furniture designs that wear their age beautifully — and were built to last.

Finding the Right Storage-case-pieces for You

Of all the vintage storage cabinets and antique case pieces that have become popular in modern interiors over the years, dressers, credenzas and cabinets have long been home staples, perfect for routine storage or protection of personal items. 

In the mid-19th century, cabinetmakers would mimic styles originating in the Louis XIV, Louis XV and Louis XVI eras for their dressers, bookshelves and other structures, and, later, simpler, streamlined wood designs allowed these “case pieces” or “case goods” — any furnishing that is unupholstered and has some semblance of a storage component — to blend into the background of any interior. 

Mid-century modern furniture enthusiasts will cite the tall modular wall units crafted in teak and other sought-after woods of the era by the likes of George Nelson, Poul Cadovius and Finn Juhl. For these highly customizable furnishings, designers of the day delivered an alternative to big, heavy bookcases by considering the use of space — and, in particular, walls — in new and innovative ways. Mid-century modern credenzas, which, long and low, evolved from tables that were built as early as the 14th century in Italy, typically have no legs or very short legs and have grown in popularity as an alluring storage option over time. 

Although the name immediately invokes images of clothing, dressers were initially created in Europe for a much different purpose. This furnishing was initially a flat-surfaced, low-profile side table equipped with a few drawers — a common fixture used to dress and prepare meats in English kitchens throughout the Tudor period. The drawers served as perfect utensil storage. It wasn’t until the design made its way to North America that it became enlarged and equipped with enough space to hold clothing and cosmetics. The very history of case pieces is a testament to their versatility and well-earned place in any room. 

In the spirit of positioning your case goods center stage, decluttering can now be design-minded.

A contemporary case piece with open shelving and painted wood details can prove functional as a storage unit as easily as it can a room divider. Alternatively, apothecary cabinets are charming case goods similar in size to early dressers or commodes but with uniquely sized shelving and (often numerous) drawers.

Whether you’re seeking a playful sideboard that features colored glass and metal details, an antique Italian hand-carved storage cabinet or a glass-door vitrine to store and show off your collectibles, there are options for you on 1stDibs.