Fabulous wooden chest

Wooden chest in many as a piece of furniture is associated primarily with fairy tales. To us imagination draws a hut in which there are wide benches, a huge wooden table, not far from a buffet, a spinning wheel and, by all means, a chest in which they have always kept all the most valuable. Today we imagine that the legends of the past are kept there. Although this does not prevent the wooden chest from being used as modern furniture. The mysterious image of it will give your house a special flavor, as well as a light tint of antiquity.

Chests wooden for antiquity are considered for a reason the brightest objects of antique furniture. They were popular in ancient Egypt in the XIII century. This country was the homeland, as it seems, of such a Russian piece of the peasant hut's interior. Masters from Russia, going to work in Byzantium, gradually mastered European traditions, giving their culture a wooden trunk.

Gradually, he acquired his unique qualities and took the place of the keeper of the whole family in a hut. It contained dowry, money, clothes, as well as various household trivia. In Russia, the fire was a frequent occurrence. But even in these situations, the chest allowed to preserve family values, as it could easily be taken from a burning hut for handles.

In Russia, 2 types of chests were distributed, one of them was with a convex hinged lid, the second with a flat one. Also there were small models resembling caskets; The larger ones were intended for the storage of clothing, food. For strength, they were lined with strips of iron. It is also worth noting that the wealth of the family was measured by the number of chests.

Not everyone knows that the chest is a prototype of a carpetbag, chest of drawers, a box, a suitcase, a table, a cabinet, and a safe. "Expanding" from the number of things, it turned into a modern cupboard. Due to this, now in many apartments there is minimalism - cabinets take up little space, a chest - and even less. Thus, it was the wooden trunk that solved the task of compact storage of various things.

Some professions are also associated with it, which were always considered not to belong to furniture. Once there was a specialty - the packer of clothes in chests. So, one of them was Frenchman Louis Vuitton, unknown to the whole world. In this case, he became a real professional, since only Louis could lay clothes in such a way that afterwards there was not a single crease left on her. Of course, his popularity did not begin with this, but the chest holds a certain place in the fate of the greatest designer. It was he who turned this thing into a hiking furniture - in his image were created travel bags and suitcases.

Wooden floor box   Is made of a suitable material. More precisely, from oak, but sometimes from birch, although the furniture of the peasants was made of the cheapest breeds of wood. The best Russian forest was the Vologda. Of the larch growing in those forests, they made stunning chests, in which the moth never appeared.

They are not a thing of the past - today designers work quite often on the interior of premises in the traditional Russian style. Accordingly, the chest is one of its main attributes. In this interior, naturalness is an unspoken rule, since all furniture consists only of natural natural materials. This will also include a chest, a buffet, benches, a fireplace, a long table decorated with carvings. On the windows must hang linen curtains, the walls will be in the tones of the tree, but for the floor it is best to use the board. This all will create an atmosphere far from the bored of all the big city.