Maitland Smith Neoclassical Serpentine Oxbow Commode Console Table Chest Drawers

Pair of two Maitland Smith Poise Chiffonier sideboard cabinets, console tables or commodes featuring demilune / half round form with upper drawer, lower cabinet and textured hand pai...

An exquisite late 18th / early 19th century commode. Made from mahogany with an oxbow form featuring cross banding walnut and burled panels. Includes three hand dovetailed drawers wi...

"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...

Rare vintage Maitland Smith table lamps, made of heavy cast metal with a bright silver finish, showing a Neoclassical style pedestal like ...

Late 20th Century Maitland Smith Side, Accent or Center Table. Drawing inspiration from French Louis XV & Italian Neoclassical styling. Features a round top over scrolled iron frame ...

An exquisite Demilune / Crescent / Halfmoon hall table by Theodore Alexander, circa 2000s. Features a mahogany burl frame with four drawers and foliate and foliate inlaid stiles over...

This is a superbly crafted leather wrapped and gold tooled embossed Maitland Smith chest of drawers. The piece is finish in an antiqued patinized leather with intentional distressing...

Vintage Maitland-Smith chest. This wonderful small chest features an all-over chunky geometric horn veneer, two-drawer fronts that are clad in brass along its edges and brass handle ...

Handsome vintage chest of drawers crafted in polished coconut shells over a modern stylized traditional form with a serpentine front having three drawers clad in bronze with bronze h...

Maitland Smith contemporary 5 drawer chest This chest measures: 37.5 wide x 21 deep x 37 inches high About Photos: We take our photos in a controlled lighting studio to show as muc...

A beautifully made mahogany chest by Maitland-Smith with large upper beveled mirror supported by two round wooden columns with nicely carved finials, over three fitted small banded d...

A single Maitland Smith ebonized five drawer bow front commode having flame decoration and leather wrapped trim. Each drawer is adorned with lion face drawer pulls.