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"Vintage Davis Cabinet Company bookcase commode. Made of teakwood featuring asian styling with upper book shelves and lower cabinet. Circa late 20th century, Nashville Tennessee. #1515 These words of our venerable leader introduce this short history of our firm which began in 1929. There are certainly older furniture companies ---- and obviously younger ones, but quite likely, none with a more romantic history or a more Horatio Alger-like history than ours. Davis Cabinet Company began as the dream of one man, Lipscomb ""Lip"" Davis, and as is the case with most dreams, this one ---- the impractical idea of building fine furniture from solid wood ---- was thought to be an impossibility. Wood, like steel and iron and most other substances, expands and contracts with climate changes. Furniture built of solid wood must of necessity rack itself to pieces through the inexorable changes of expansion and contraction. Lipscomb Davis thought otherwise. His personal philosophy might be expressed as ""Anything can be accomplished if it is done correctly"", and to this end he had already conceived and engineered a startling new concept of free floating construction that would allow the solid wood case construction to move at will . . . . naturally . . . and thereby avoid the stresses of climatic change. The opportunity to test the idea came dramatically in 1929 ---- but we're getting a bit ahead of our story. While Davis Cabinet Company was formed in 1929, it really had its beginnings around the turn of the century as a sawmill located near Fifth Street on the banks of the Cumberland River. The mill produced lumber from logs rafted down the river from neighboring forests. A ready market existed for most of the high grade lumber turned out by the mill. But, in order to utilize their entire production, the enterprising mill owners formed a subsidiary business, Standard Furniture Company. Here, they manufactured primarily veneered bedroom suites and sewing machine cabinets...

Early 20th century Chinese elm etagere cabinet. Features a modernist open form with three shelves over two dovetailed drawers and lower cupboard for storage. Constructed via mortise ...

An open frame industrial style x frame bookcase or room divider from the last quarter of the 20th century. Made from oak with four long shelves. The unit can be broken down folding u...

A fun set of four "L" shaped modular bookcase units. Finished in Maple, circa 1970s. Each stacks nicely to create a geometric storage system. Can be ...

Style No 295 (Cabinet , Wire Grille Doors) Literature : Page 63-118 of Baker's European and Far East Furniture Handbook, circa 1960s (assembled for those who appreciate the finest) ...

An art deco style triangular geometric corner shelf. Features tempered glass shelves. Brackets along the top allow it to be mounted to the wall. Measures: 63".

Library/ Room Divider, designed by Willy Rizzo. France, Willy Rizzo, 2012. A large contemporary bookcase/ room divider made of polished stainless steel construction with smoked glas...

Oblique 01.1, a room divider or bookcase that knows how to divide every space, without losing the sense of spaciousness. Inspired by Le Corbusier’s Tower of Shadows, the oblique subd...

Oblique 01.1, a room divider that knows how to divide every space, without losing the sense of spaciousness. Inspired by Le Corbusier’s Tower of Shadows, the oblique subdivisions mak...

We are delighted to offer for sale this exquisite Charleston Forge Etagere open library bookcase. A very good looking decorative and well m...

Conceived as a minimal and contemporary bookcase to breakup the plane of the wall, this modular system, is versatile as a modern room divider as well as a backdrop in any space, be i...

The contemporary modern Black Steel Ahn etagere is a study in positive and negative space. With its five different asymmetrical and organic surfaces, Ahn is a minimal sculpture in its own right, playing with balance and tension between the shelves while serving as an etagere, bookcase, or storage shelf...