Ciao Bella! Found in Avignon and originally from the Italian Alps, this 19th-century cupboard is a garde-manger, the alpine pantry built with a latticed upper cabinet so that cured meats, hard cheeses, and loaves of bread could be stored behind closed doors while the cold mountain air still circulated through them. The two upper doors are made entirely of hand-cut wooden lattice, joined into a tight diamond pattern, and the small turned wooden knob between them is original. The three open shelves below were for the things that didn't need to be hidden, the daily bread, the jug of wine, the basket of walnuts that came out at the end of every meal.Sylvie places it in a kitchen with linen-wrapped cheeses behind the lattice doors and a basket of lemons on the shelf below.
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