Double leaf door classic 18th-century Baroque Tyrolean cupboard with a shaped drawer

Luxury double leaf door classic 18th-century Baroque Tyrolean cupboard with a shaped drawer. Its architectonic lines and the selection of decorations indicate the uniqueness of luxurious and gorgeous decorated furniture eighteenth century style from Val Venosta.

Model Description

Model Structure

The double leaf door classic 18th-century Baroque Tyrolean cupboard with a shaped drawer has many details, like all Tyrolean furniture: quality inlaid adornment with a replicated pattern on the upper frame, sides notching and bracket feet that lighten the aesthetic frame. The interior part has 4 adjustable shelves with rack ladders and a clothes hanger. The shell is composed of a double leaf door and a drawer.

Raw Material

The cupboard is completely made of solid spruce wood , typically used for mountain tyrolean furnishing in seventeenth and eighteenth century. Solid spruce is a softwood very suitable for processing and decorating mountain furniture.

Manufacture

Handmade decorations with water temperas and traditional materials used in eighteenth century; the frame is painted in light blue. The panelings of the leaf doors are creamy white, in order to emphasise the garnet red Baroque drawings and geometrical patterns. There are the same decorations on the sides and on the drawer, too. The frames are covered by a yellow-earth slight thread, while the handcrafted natural clays coating gives this double leaf door classic 18th-century Baroque Tyrolean cupboard with a shaped drawer an old-fashioned look.

Size of the model in the picture

Built in the dimension 115x55x195h. being produced and painted by hand, the wardrobe can be customized in terms of size, color tone and decorative subjects, according to customer needs.

Model History

Century of use

This is a refined and elegant second-half classic 18th-century Baroque Tyrolean style reproduction, from Val Senales area.

Historical notes and mobile curiosities

The history of the original double leaf door classic 18th-century Baroque Tyrolean cupboard with a shaped drawer is unique. The cupboard is located in the medieval castle, Castel Juval, in Val Senales (the castle was a splendid property with many owners in succession. In the mid-seventeenth century, a farmer bought the castle and ordered to restore it). In addition to many different epochs furniture, we find this beautiful cupboard used as a gun cabinet, because the owner loved to go hunting. For this reason, he ordered to decorate the cupboard in pastel shades, so that it would have appeared as a sideboard with a hidden treasure.