DAVIS CABINET Co French Country Style Painted Semainier Lingerie Chest

A Chippendale style semainier lingerie chest Stickley Furniture. Solid mahogany with brass hardware, bevel edge to top, fluted columns to front sides, and ogee bracket feet. Features...

A semainier lingerie chest in the Chippendale style by Henkel Harris, of Winchester, Virginia, USA. Solid mahogany with brass hardware, ogee edge to top, and bracket feet. Features s...

A French Country style bachelor chest, unbranded, similar quality to Thomasville or White Furniture. Fruitwood with antique brass hardware, marble top, carved drawer fronts, carved a...

A French Country style gentleman's chest by White Furniture. Solid cherry wood with slightly distressed finish, ogee edge to the top, brass hardware, decoratively carved frieze over ...

A small Country style bench by Davis Cabinet Co. of Nashville, Tennessee, USA. Solid cherry with apron, ""H"" shaped sides, shelf stretcher and hal...

An antique semainier chest in the French Louis XV style, unbranded. Constructed of kingwood with a bowed front, inlaid floral designs on the dr...

"Vintage Davis Cabinet Company commode or side table. Made of Walnut featuring square serpentine form with two drawers, carved accents and cabriole legs. Circa late 20th century, Nashville Tennessee. 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...

"Vintage Davis Cabinet Company low chest of drawers / dresser / nightstand / TV console. Made of ebonized cerused oak featuring rectangular form with asian styling and three drawers with brass hardware. 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...

An American Victorian style standing chest of drawers made by Davis Cabinet Company of Nashville, Tennessee, for their Lillian Russel Bedroom collection...

Antique Country French Chiffonier ~ Lingerie Chest is the perfect choice for storing clothes while taking up a minimum amount of floor space in the room! Five vertically oriented dra...

Pair of French Louis XV Style Semainier Lingerie Chest Tall Night Stands Dimensions : 43" Tall X 16" Wide X 15.25" Deep These lingerie chests were made in France in the 1920's era ...

Clean Lined Stickley Lingerie Chest or Semainier, originally designed in the 1910s by Gustav Stickley, this example is part of the authorized line pr...