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Wardrobe
A wardrobe (sometimes called an "armoire") is a cabinet used for storing clothes. The earliest wardrobe was a chest, and it was not until some degree of luxury was attained in regal palaces and the castles of powerful nobles that separate accommodation was provided for the sumptuous apparel of the great. The name of wardrobe was then given to a room in which the wall-space was filled with cupboards and lockers, the drawer being a comparatively modern invention. From these cupboards and lockers the modern wardrobe, with its hanging spaces, sliding shelves and drawers, evolved slowly.

History

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A Chinese Ming Dynasty compound wardrobe made of rosewood, latter half of the 16th century.
In its movable form as an oak "hanging cupboard" it dates back to the early 17th century. For probably a hundred years such pieces, massive and cumbrous in form, but often with well-carved fronts, were produced in moderate numbers; then the gradual diminution in the use of oak for cabinet-making produced a change of fashion.

Walnut succeeded oak as the favourite material for furniture, but hanging wardrobes in walnut appear to have been made very rarely, although clothes presses, with drawers and sliding trays, were frequent.

During a large portion of the 18th century the tallboy was much used for storing clothes.

In the nineteenth century the wardrobe began to develop into its modern form, with a hanging cupboard at each side, a press in the upper part of the central portion and drawers below. As a rule it was often of mahogany, but as satinwood and other hitherto scarce finely grained foreign woods began to be obtainable in considerable quantities, many elaborately and even magnificently inlaid wardrobes were made.

Where Chippendale and his school had carved, Sheraton, Hepplewhite and their contemporaries achieved their effects by the artistic employment of deftly contrasted and highly polished woods.

The first step in the evolution of the wardrobe was taken when the central doors, which had previously enclosed merely the upper part, were carried to the floor, covering the drawers as well as the sliding shelves, and were often fitted with mirrors.

Construction

Bedroom armoires of today are often made by machines and designed to be assembled by the shopper.[1]

References

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A cabinet is usually a box-shaped form, either standing alone as a piece of furniture or built into or attached to a wall (such as a medicine cabinet) typically made of wood but now often made of synthetic materials, and used for storage of miscellaneous items.
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A chest is one of the oldest forms of furniture. It is typically a rectangular structure with four walls and a liftable lid, for storage. The interior space may be subdivided.
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palace is the home of a head of state or other high-ranking public figure. In some countries, such as Italy, the term is also applied to some private mansions. Many palaces are now put to other uses such as parliaments or museums.
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A castle is a defensive structure seen as one of the main symbols of the Middle Ages. The term has a history of scholarly debate surrounding its exact meaning, but it is usually regarded as being distinct from the general terms fort or fortress in that it describes a building
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A cupboard (IPA: /ˈkʌbəd/) is a type of cabinet, often made of wood, used indoors to store household objects such as food and crockery, and protect them from dust and dirt.
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drawer is a piece of furniture that is most often shaped as a short, wide topless box and is used for storage. It is generally stored within another, larger piece of furniture, and may be pulled out from it partway to access its contents, for example a Chest of Drawers.
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Things commonly known as lockers include:
  • A type of storage compartment with a lock usually used to store clothing. When a room is dedicated to containing many lockers it is often called either a locker room or changing room.
  • A Bicycle locker
  • A locking differential.

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A shelf is a detail of furniture for storing items.

It may also refer to:
  • Shelf (computing), a user interface feature in the NeXTSTEP operating system
  • Shelf, West Yorkshire, a village in England

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Quercus
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The term oak can be used as part of the common name of any of several hundred species of trees and shrubs in the genus Quercus
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Quercus
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The term oak can be used as part of the common name of any of several hundred species of trees and shrubs in the genus Quercus
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cabinet is a body of high-ranking members of government, typically representing the executive branch. It can also sometimes be referred to as the Council of Ministers, an Executive Council or an Executive Committee.
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Walnuts (genus Juglans) are plants in the family Juglandaceae. They are deciduous trees, 10 - 40 metres tall (about 30-130 ft.
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Sliding refer to something that can slide and may refer to:
  • Sliding (dance), also floating or gliding, a group of footwork-oriented dance techniques and styles closely related to popping

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system tray or systray or see trays for the driving technique


A tray is a shallow platform designed for carrying things. It is larger than a salver, a diminutive version commonly used for lighter and smaller servings, and it can be fashioned from
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  • A tallboy is a large beverage can, usually containing approximately 500 mL (16 fluid ounces) of beer.
  • A tallboy (furniture) is a piece of furniture incorporating a chest of drawers and a wardrobe on top.

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mahogany is used when referring to numerous varieties of dark-colored wood, originally the wood of the species Swietenia mahagoni, known as West Indian or Cuban Mahogany.
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Satinwood can mean the following:
  • A name for a wood that can be polished to a high gloss, in particular two woods, from the flowering plant family Rutaceae:
  • Chloroxylon swietenia

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Chippendale may refer to:
  • Thomas Chippendale, or his furniture
  • Chippendales dancers, a chain of clubs and troupe of performers
  • Chippendale, New South Wales
  • Andrew Chippendale, Peace Activist

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  • Chip 'n Dale

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George Hepplewhite (1727? - June 21, 1786) was a cabinet and chair maker. He was one of the "big three" English furniture makers of the 18th century, along with Thomas Sheraton and Thomas Chippendale.
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mirror is an object with a surface that has good specular reflection; that is, it is smooth enough to form an image. The most familiar type of mirror is the plane mirror, which has a flat surface.
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machine (derived from the latin machina) is any device that transmits or modifies . In common usage, the meaning is restricted to devices having rigid moving parts that perform or assist in performing some work.
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domestic robot is a robot used for household chores. Thus far, there are only a few limited models; science fiction authors have suggested that they could become more common in the future.
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A hamper is a primarily British term for a wicker basket, usually large, that is used for the transport of items, often food.

In America, the term hamper generally refers to a household receptacle for dirty clothing, regardless of its composition, i.e- "a laundry hamper".
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Ironing or smoothing is the work of using a heated tool to remove wrinkles from washed clothes. The common tools for this purpose are called "irons", though modern designs are no longer made of iron.
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Washing Machine is an album by the band Sonic Youth. It was released shortly after the group concluded their stint headlining the 1995 Lollapalooza music festival.
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A cabinet is usually a box-shaped form, either standing alone as a piece of furniture or built into or attached to a wall (such as a medicine cabinet) typically made of wood but now often made of synthetic materials, and used for storage of miscellaneous items.
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