Found in Béziers from Severine, one of Sylvie's favorite dealers in the south of France, this 19th-century French cabinet was originally made for a farmhouse in the Alps. The form is the alpine vaisselier: open shelving above and locked storage below in a single piece, built to hold the family's plates, bread, and salt in a kitchen where winters were long and the closest market was a day's walk down the mountain. The construction tells the story: wrought iron strap hinges, hand-cut joinery, scalloped aprons, and dark weathered timber, the hallmarks of Alpine country furniture made by village joiners who built every piece to outlast the family that ordered it. Sylvie places it in a kitchen with the open shelves stacked with the everyday plates and the cabinet below holding the things that need to be put away.
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