Carved Console Table, Light Elm antique-eclectic natural wood finish

natural wood finish

They were often stacked in twos or threes in bedrooms or placed on top of cabinets for storing winter clothes or bedding

'waisted' top and the 'S' shaped stretchers between the legs

making them transportable for travelling and easy to store

This little chest is a modern take on the apothecary chest

Carved Console Table, Light Elm antique-eclectic natural wood finishThis stunning light elm piece is a reproduction of desks that were common in China during the later Qing dynasty, used by the scholarly classes in Beijing. Ideal used as a modern day console table with a beautiful lattice shelf at the bottom. The design of this low lattice shelf harks back to earlier door and window panels in Chinese homes and is made in the same way each individual piece of wood fitting into the next with mortise and tenon joints.