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Commodes and Chests of Drawers For Sale
Color:  Green
Bespoke Italian Brass Emerald Blue Green Art Glass 9-Drawer Dresser Sideboard
Located in New York, NY
Let's bring some ocean breeze inside! What we love about this piece is not only its functionality with its 9 drawers (options for sizes) but also its artistic impact and exceptional ...
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2010s Italian Organic Modern Commodes and Chests of Drawers

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Brass

Bespoke Italian Brass Emerald Blue Green Art Glass 9-Drawer Dresser Sideboard
Located in New York, NY
Let's bring some ocean breeze inside! What we love about this piece is not only its functionality with its 9 drawers (options for sizes) but also its artistic impact and exceptional ...
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2010s Italian Organic Modern Commodes and Chests of Drawers

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Brass

Green Oak Chest of drawers, 1910s
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
Chest of drawers made of oak and pine from Hungary, circa 1910. The original paint shows crackle due to age. The chest has 4 drawers, all made with dovetail joints. All the fittings ...
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1910s Hungarian Rustic Vintage Commodes and Chests of Drawers

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Oak, Pine

Chinese style green lacquered chest of drawers, 1970s
Located in Lisboa, PT
Chest of drawers, sideboard in the style of China in lacquer with bronze handles. France, 1970s.
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1970s French Vintage Commodes and Chests of Drawers

Materials

Wood

Authentic Dorothy Draper Espana Chest in Emerald Green
Located in Saint Louis, MO
Authentic Dorothy Draper España chest, shown in Emerald Green. The crème de la crème - the most iconic of Hollywood Regency glam - is Dorothy Draper's España bunching chest. Dorothy Draper (1889-1969), America's most famous decorator, produced her most sought after and iconic pieces - the España bunching chest and the España cabinet...
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Mid-20th Century American Hollywood Regency Commodes and Chests of Drawers

Materials

Brass

Vintage Regency Faux Finished Malachite and Mirrored Chest of Drawers
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
An extraordinary vintage Regency chest of drawers. A truly magnificent piece of furniture with a hand done Malachite finish with inset vintage mirrored panels...
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Mid-20th Century Italian Regency Commodes and Chests of Drawers

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Malachite

Vintage 1970s Raymond Loewy Style Space Age Green Chapter One Highboy Dresser
Located in Chattanooga, TN
Vintage 1970s Space Age green and white Broyhill Chapter One highboy dresser. The 1970s era Chapter One collection was Broyhill’s playful re-imagining of Raymond Loewy’s work for French, brand DF200. Broyhill successfully made the Chapter One line more approachable for the American market. This tall stack of green drawers looks like LEGO come time life. Exciting, bold yet practical, these deep drawers can hold heaps of stuff. We have a matching low dresser and nightstand as well as several yellow Chapter One pieces. Inquire if you are interested in buying any of the other pieces and need group pricing. The restoration team pulled no punches on this Chapter One green highboy dresser, and the end result exceeded our expectations. Every inch of painted wood (including base) was professionally sanded primed and painted to match the original bright white. The laminate top and canary green molded plastic drawer fronts were finally buffed and polished to a glassy shine. 39.5” Wide x 18” Deep x 43.75” High Broyhill’s Chapter one collection borrowed from the plastic mold injection designs made famous by legendary designer Raymond Loewy. Like Loewy, these Chapter One Dressers employ the futuristic use of color and materials in a way that had not been seen before. The bright yellow plastic captures the playful spirit of the 1970s. The dresser is supported by a lacquered plinth base with rounded corners. This colorful, curvaceous case-good could have blended in nicely on the set of 2001 A Space Odyssey. The space-age look has never been more desirable, which may help explain the recent scarcity of all things Chapter One. We also have matching pieces including two low dressers, yellow nightstand...
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1970s American Futurist Vintage Commodes and Chests of Drawers

Materials

Plastic, Hardwood

Acerbis Storet Drawers Dresser in Green fluo by Nanda Vigo
Located in Brooklyn, NY
The collection is enriched with a version with four drawers and more contemporary finishes. In 1994 Nanda Vigo designed a ten-drawer cabinet for Acerbis Storet. It became part of th...
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21st Century and Contemporary Commodes and Chests of Drawers

Materials

Walnut

Pair of Painted Green French Provincial Chests
Located in Locust Valley, NY
A pair of painted green, French Provincial style chests of drawers.
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20th Century French Provincial Commodes and Chests of Drawers

Materials

Wood, Paint

Pair of Chartreuse Commodes
Located in Stamford, CT
Funny Girl? Chartreuse and purple pinstriped 60's inspired commodes. The high quality craftsmanship suggests that this great pair of chests may have been cu...
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1960s Italian Vintage Commodes and Chests of Drawers

Materials

Bronze

Charming Lime Green Rustic Antique Victorian Pine Chest of Drawers
Located in West Sussex, Pulborough
We are delighted to offer for sale this charming Antique Victorian French painted chest of drawers with lovely handles. This beautiful piece has a lot of character and charm with ...
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19th Century French Victorian Antique Commodes and Chests of Drawers

Materials

Pine

Contemporary Italian Chest, Green Lacquered Wood and Brass, Italy
Located in Brussels, BE
Contemporary Italian chest, green lacquered wood and brass, Italy. Different colors available upon order.
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Commodes and Chests of Drawers

Materials

Brass

Established & Sons Stack-8 Drawers by Raw Edges and Shay Alkalay
Located in London, GB
In this innovative design Shay Alkalay challenges our perception of what a drawer unit can be. Individual, multicolored, ‘floating’ drawer units are built up creating a tower of draw...
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21st Century and Contemporary Modern Commodes and Chests of Drawers

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Plywood

Pair of Green Minimalist Nightstands Side Tables by Atelier Bachmann, 2019
Located in Berlin, DE
A beautiful pair of green side tables/nightstands designed by Yuzo Bachmann for Atelier Bachmann, handcrafted in Germany, 2019. These nightstands are...
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21st Century and Contemporary German Commodes and Chests of Drawers

Materials

Plywood

Honeycomb Anglo Indian Green Four Drawer Dressers
Located in New York, NY
Introducing our exquisite Bone Inlay Dresser, an undeniable statement piece for any bedroom or living room. This stunning four drawer dresser is ent...
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21st Century and Contemporary Indian Mid-Century Modern Commodes and Chests of Drawers

Materials

Bone, Wood

Honeycomb Anglo Indian Green Four Drawer Dressers
Located in New York, NY
Introducing our exquisite Bone Inlay Dresser, an undeniable statement piece for any bedroom or living room. This stunning four drawer dresser is entirely handmade, featuring intricat...
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21st Century and Contemporary Indian Mid-Century Modern Commodes and Chests of Drawers

Materials

Bone, Wood

Delia chest by the fabulous things in hand painted absolute green swirl
Located in Richmond, VA
The Delia chest by our sister company, “The Fabulous Things” seen in our hand painted absolute green swirl. Please see website for full list if finishe...
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2010s American Commodes and Chests of Drawers

Materials

Wood, Paint

CHARMING LiME GREEN RUSTIC ANTIQUE VICTORIAN PINE CHEST OF DRAWERS
Located in West Sussex, Pulborough
We are delighted to offer for sale this charming antique Victorian French painted chest of drawers with lovely handles. This beautiful piece has a lot of character and charm with it...
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19th Century French Victorian Antique Commodes and Chests of Drawers

Materials

Pine

Stack H1780 13 Drawer Green Palette Storage By Established & Sons
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
Challenging the conventions of a traditional drawer unit, Stack consists of individual, multicoloured drawers that appear suspended above one another and open in both directions, cre...
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21st Century and Contemporary British Commodes and Chests of Drawers

Materials

Steel

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Located in Madrid, ES
A wonderful and very elegant contemporary pair of Italian cabinets. Structure made of solid wood covered in mirror and blue glass with orange ...
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Located in Philadelphia, PA
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Located in Lambertville, NJ
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Located in Roma, RM
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Pair of Hollywood Regency Moroccan Modern Nightstands in Green Lacquer, c. 1965
Located in Saint Louis, MO
Pair of 1960s Hollywood Regency Moroccan Modern nightstands refinished in Seaweed Green Lacquer with original brass knobs. Moroccan star motif drawer details with centered brass knob...
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French Louis XIV Lacquered Green Double Serpentine Front Brass Handles Dresser
Located in Houston, TX
French Louis XIV lacquered green double serpentine front brass handles dresser. Circa 1930's, in the style of Baker furniture. Bold stunning look in any room. Fresh restoration.
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Located in London, GB
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Antique and Vintage Chests of Drawers and Commodes for Sale: Find Art Deco Commodes and Mid-Century Modern Chests of Drawers on 1stDibs

Shopping for a commode or a chest of drawers?

Commode is the French term for a low chest of drawers, but it is also sometimes used to denote any case piece with a particularly intricate design. The commode dates to circa 1700 France, where it was used as an alternative to a taller cabinet piece so as to not obscure paneled, mirrored or tapestried walls. Coffers, or chests, which were large wooden boxes with hinged lids and sometimes stood on ball feet, preceded chests of drawers, a fashionable cabinet furnishing that garnered acclaim for its obvious storage potential and versatility. The term commode was also used to refer to a piece of bedroom furniture — a washstand or nightstand that contained a chamber pot. 

As time passed, French and British furniture makers led the way in the production of chests of drawers, and features like the integration of bronze and ornamental pulls became commonplace. Antique French commodes in the Louis XV style were sometimes crafted in mahogany or walnut, while an Italian marble top added a sophisticated decorative flourish. This specific type of case piece grew in popularity in the years that followed.

So, what makes a chest of drawers different from a common dresser? Dressers are short, and chests of drawers are overall taller pieces of furniture that typically do not have room on the top for a mirror as most dressers do. Tallboys and highboys are variations of the dresser form. Some chests of drawers have one column of four to six long drawers or three long drawers in their bottom section that are topped by a cluster of small side-by-side drawers on the top. To further complicate things, we sometimes refer to particularly short chests of drawers as nightstands. 

Even though chests of drawers are commonly thought of as bedroom furniture to store clothing, these are adaptable pieces. A chest of drawers can house important documents — think of your walnut Art Deco commode as an upgrade to your filing cabinet. Nestle your chest near your home’s front door to store coats and other outerwear, while the top can be a place to drop your handbag. Add some flair to your kitchen, where this lovable case piece can hold pots, pans and even cookbooks.

When shopping for the right chest of drawers for your home, there are a few key things to consider: What will you be storing in it? How big a chest will you need?

Speaking of size, don’t dream too big. If your space is on the smaller side, a more streamlined vintage mid-century modern chest of drawers, perhaps one designed by Paul McCobb or T.H. Robsjohn-Gibbings, may best suit your needs.

At 1stDibs, we make it easy to add style and storage to your home. Browse our collection of antique and vintage commodes and chests of drawers today.

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