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An antique wooden esquinero from France dating to 1900–1910 in the Louis XV style, featuring a four-tier slender design with curved edges and a central pedestal, finished in warm reddish wood, in good used condition with small signs of age and imperfections, dimensions 140 cm high by 71 cm wide by 50 cm deep.
Description from the seller
It is a corner cabinet that preserves that ceremonial and slightly theatrical air of late Victorian furniture, but already filtered through the lighter, more practical sensibility of the early 20th century. The piece rises like a small domestic architecture: four levels that ascend in decreasing order, each with sinuous, almost undulating edges that soften the triangular geometry typical of furniture designed to embrace the corner without dominating it.
The wood, with its reddish tone and polish, shows a warm sheen that reveals both the care given to the finish and the decorative intention. It is not a merely functional piece of furniture: it is an object that wants to be seen, that wants to accompany the room with a touch of refinement. The central pedestal, which opens on three curved feet, brings that vertical elegance so characteristic of Victorian taste, where even the supports became expressive elements.
There is in the whole a very attractive mix between lightness and ornament: the structure is slender, almost airy, but the cut profiles and the presence of the pedestal give it an air of a well-made piece, designed to display small objects, porcelains, recuerdos or plants. It is the type of furniture that in a house from the early 20th century would have occupied a corner of the living room or hallway, adding a touch of distinction without stealing the spotlight.
In short, a corner cabinet that combines Victorian heritage—its curves, its love of detail, its vertical elegance—with the functionality and clean lines that were beginning to take hold at the turn of the century. A friendly piece, decorative and with that serene charm of furniture that has accompanied several generations.
Insured shipping and careful packing.
Seller's Story
It is a corner cabinet that preserves that ceremonial and slightly theatrical air of late Victorian furniture, but already filtered through the lighter, more practical sensibility of the early 20th century. The piece rises like a small domestic architecture: four levels that ascend in decreasing order, each with sinuous, almost undulating edges that soften the triangular geometry typical of furniture designed to embrace the corner without dominating it.
The wood, with its reddish tone and polish, shows a warm sheen that reveals both the care given to the finish and the decorative intention. It is not a merely functional piece of furniture: it is an object that wants to be seen, that wants to accompany the room with a touch of refinement. The central pedestal, which opens on three curved feet, brings that vertical elegance so characteristic of Victorian taste, where even the supports became expressive elements.
There is in the whole a very attractive mix between lightness and ornament: the structure is slender, almost airy, but the cut profiles and the presence of the pedestal give it an air of a well-made piece, designed to display small objects, porcelains, recuerdos or plants. It is the type of furniture that in a house from the early 20th century would have occupied a corner of the living room or hallway, adding a touch of distinction without stealing the spotlight.
In short, a corner cabinet that combines Victorian heritage—its curves, its love of detail, its vertical elegance—with the functionality and clean lines that were beginning to take hold at the turn of the century. A friendly piece, decorative and with that serene charm of furniture that has accompanied several generations.
Insured shipping and careful packing.

