There is a rough, hand-built quality to this one, the boards uneven and the ironwork hammered rather than bought, the marks of a piece made to work rather than to impress. Found in Béziers, this Spanish cupboard comes from Catalonia and dates to the 19th century, two small latched doors up top over open shelves below, all of it under an old near-black finish worn back at the edges. The closed top kept the bread and anything worth latching away from the damp and the mice, while the open shelves held what the household reached for through the day. Sylvie sets it against a wall with books stacked along the open shelves and the little cupboard above holding what she would rather keep to herself.
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