It was love at first sight. Found in Avignon, this early 20th-century French oak cupboard is a deux-corps, which is the French name for a cabinet built in two stacking pieces. The top half has a pair of paneled doors that open to three deep shelves built for stacking plates and serving pieces, and the bottom half has its own pair of doors over a single deep drawer that runs the full width of the case. Cupboards like this stood in the dining rooms of country houses across France, where the everyday plates lived behind the lower doors and the good china lived behind the upper, brought down only for a wedding, a christening, or the lunch the priest came to. Sylvie places it in a kitchen with the upper doors left open, a stack of mismatched white plates and pressed linen napkins on the shelves, a lemon tart cooling on the counter, and the windows open to the garden.
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