Cabinets (furniture)

A wardrobe, also called armoire or almirah, is a standing closet 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 apparel of the great. The name of wardrobe was then given to a room in which the wall-space was filled with closets 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.

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300px|thumb|Cabinet; by Francesco Del Tuppo; ; oak and poplar veneered with various exotic hardwoods, with ebony moldings and plaques of marble, and various other materials; 59.1 × 96.8 × 35.9 cm; Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York City) A cabinet is a case or cupboard with shelves or drawers for storing or displaying items. Some cabinets are stand alone while others are built in to a wall or are attached to it like a medicine cabinet. Cabinets are typically made of wood (solid or with veneers or artificial surfaces), coated steel (common for medicine cabinets), or synthetic materials. Comme

thumb|French commode, by Gilles Joubert, circa 1735, made of oak and walnut, veneered with tulipwood, ebony, holly, other woods, gilt bronze and imitation marble, in the Museum of Fine Arts ([[Boston, United States)]] thumb|A British commode, circa 1772, marquetry of various woods, bronze and gilt-bronze mounts, overall: , in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York City)

thumb|Composite order|Composite columns of a bookshelf from the [[Bibliothèque Mazarine (Paris)]] thumb|Household bookshelf arranged by color

thumb|Antique cupboard (right): Decorative crockery and bibelots in vitré armoire or vitrina thumb|Illustration of a closed cupboard A cupboard is a piece of furniture for enclosing dishware or grocery items that are stored in a home. The term is sometimes also used for any form of cabinet or enclosed bookcase. It gradually evolved from its original meaning: an open-shelved side table for displaying dishware, more specifically plates, cups and saucers. These open cupboards typically had between one and three display tiers, and at the time, a drawer or multiple drawers fitted to them.

furniture for display of objects

thumb|An open built-in closet A closet (especially in North American English usage) is an enclosed space, with a door, used for storage, particularly that of clothes. Fitted closets are built into the walls of the house so that they take up no apparent space in the room. Closets are often built under stairs, thereby using awkward space that would otherwise go unused.

thumb|300px|Keyless lockers (Japan) thumb|300px|Lockers made of metal (Victoria Harbour, Hong Kong) A locker is a small, usually narrow storage compartment. They are commonly found in dedicated cabinets, very often in large numbers, in various public places such as locker rooms, workplaces, schools, transport hubs and the like. They vary in size, purpose, construction, and security.

flat horizontal plane used for storage

kitchenware

piece of cabinet furniture with drawers

thumb|upright|An American chiffonier

turntable placed on a table or countertop to aid in distributing food

storage device for umbrellas and walking sticks, usually located entrances

thumb|A in the Sentō|bath house of [[Kobe, Japan]] thumb| at an elementary school A is a shoe cupboard in Japan, usually situated in the , an entryway or porch of the house. This is often called a cubby in the United States. In Japan, it is considered uncouth to not remove one's shoes before entering the house. Near the is a slipper rack, and most people in Japan wear slippers around the house, except for rooms which have tatami flooring, as they are bad for the floor. The is usually made of wood and bamboo, and there are many sold all over the world.

Furniture for holding shoes

small cache of first aid items and drugs

furniture type

A taboret (also spelled tabouret or tabourette) refers to two different pieces of furniture: a cabinet or a stool. thumb|right|upright=0.56|Empire style tabourets in the [[Château de Fontainebleau]] thumb|upright=0.56|1909 octagonal tabouret of Arts and Crafts design thumb|1910 Jacobean tabouret, UK thumb|upright=0.56|1912 square tabouret of craftsman design thumb|1917 piano bench and taboret thumb|19th century milking tabouret, Romania

thumb | right | alt=A stone wall with two openings divided by a pillar | Armarium at Le Thoronet abbey in FranceArmaria (singular armarium) are a kind of closed, labeled cupboards that were used for book storage from ancient history until the Middle Ages.

Type of cupboard serving as a workstation

thumb|Contemporary cellarette, built in 2009

piece of office furniture

type of shelving which is designed for increased storage capacity

small wooden cabinet containing two or three decanters

cabinet for the storage of hazardous materials

Wine box claimed to be haunted; subject of film: The Possession..

Type of furniture

thumb|upright=1.5|Edo-period chest on chest were used by merchant class women for personal clothing storage. are traditional Japanese mobile storage cabinets. are commonly used for the storage of clothing, particularly kimono.