Wooden chest for many as a piece of furniture is associated primarily with fairy tales. Our imagination draws a hut in which there are wide benches, a huge wooden table, not far away is a sideboard, a spinning wheel and, of course, a chest in which all the most valuable things were always saved. Today we imagine that the traditions of days past are kept there. Although this does not in the least prevent a wooden chest from being used as modern furniture. Its mysterious image will give your home a special flavor, as well as a slight touch of antiquity.
Antique wooden chests are considered the brightest pieces of antique furniture for a reason. They were popular in ancient Egypt as early as the 13th century. This country was the birthplace, as it seems, of such a Russian piece of furniture for a peasant hut. Masters from Russia, going to work in Byzantium, gradually adopted European traditions, giving their culture a wooden chest.
Gradually he acquired his uniquequality and took the place of the guardian of the life of the whole family in the hut. It contained a dowry, money, clothes, as well as various household trifles. In Russia, a fire was not uncommon. But even in these situations, the chest made it possible to preserve family values, since it could easily be taken out of the burning hut by the handles.
In Russia, 2 types of chests became widespread, one of them was with a convex hinged lid, the second - with a flat one. There were also small models resembling caskets; the larger ones were meant for storing clothes and food. For strength, they were bound with strips of iron. It is also worth noting that the we alth of the family was measured by the number of chests.
Not everyone knows that the chest is a prototype of a bag, a chest of drawers, a box, a suitcase, a table, a wardrobe, and also a safe. "Expanding" from the number of things, it turned into a modern closet. Due to this, minimalism now reigns in many apartments - cabinets take up little space, while the chest - even less. Thus, it was the wooden chest that solved the problem of compact storage of various things.
Some professions are also associated with him, which were always considered not related to furniture. Once upon a time there was a speci alty - a stacker of clothes in chests. So, one of them was the Frenchman Louis Vuitton, still unknown to the whole world. In this matter, he became a real professional, since only Louis knew how to lay clothes in such a way that subsequently there was not a single fold left on it. Of course, its popularity did not start with this, but the chest occupies a certain place in fate.greatest designer. It was he who turned this thing into camping furniture - travel bags and suitcases were created in his image.
The floor wooden chest is made of the appropriate material. More precisely - from oak, but sometimes from birch, although the furniture of the peasants was made from the cheapest types of wood. The best Russian forest was Vologda. From the larch growing in those forests they made amazing chests in which moths never appeared.
They are not a thing of the past - today designers often work on interiors in the traditional Russian style. Accordingly, the chest is one of its main attributes. In such an interior, naturalness is an unspoken rule, since all furniture consists only of natural natural materials. A chest, buffet, benches, a fireplace, a long table decorated with carvings will also fit in here. Linen curtains should hang on the windows, the walls will be in wood tones, but it is best to use a board for the floor. All this will create an atmosphere far from the big city that bothers everyone.
