PAMIR - Military campaign chest of drawers

Reference : STAR-0013
Dimensions : W93 x D50 x H90 cm

Inspired by the easily transportable military chests of drawers, this 5-drawer storage unit is made up of two stackable elements, fitted with carrying handles, here purely decorative. From elephant backs in the heights of Rajasthan to camel crossings of the Sahara, this is a piece of furniture often seen in the 19th century.

€4,075.00

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Premium materials

Traditional assemblies

Exceptional finishes

Features

  • Chest of drawers made of two bodies joined with tenon and mortise
  • Five drawers

Finishes

  • Wood varieties : prunus avium (cherry), Entandrophragma cylindricum (sapelli), Entandrophragma utile (sipo), Juglans nigra (black walnut)
  • Rosewood varnish finish
  • Solid brass hardware : flushed corners, decorative carrying handles, drawers handles
  • Engraved and inked Starbay bone logo

Technical information

  • Assembly of both elements above each other
  • Parcel : L104 x P60 x H100 cm / 83 kg

Maintenance tips

  • Remove dust with an anti-static or slightly damp cloth
  • Do not apply wax to avoid clogging the varnish
  • Avoid cleaning with products that could potentially be abrasive to varnish
  • Always protect surfaces before applying liquids or heat
  • Nourish leather with body milk (for baby ideally)

Travel diary

Extract of « Bulletin de la Société de géographie ", année 1890, par la Société de géographie

For us, the Pamir is a knot of mountains 400 kilometers wide as the crow flies, from which the most powerful ranges in Asia seem to emerge: the Triant-chân, the Kouen-louen, the Karakoroum, the Himalayas, the Hindou-kouch. For this is how, on a map of Asia, these gigantic foothills of the central mole of Asia appear, these gigantic foothills of the central Pamirian mole, which has always posed an impassable barrier to the great migrations of peoples, conquerors, ideas and civilizations. Until the beginning of this century, the Pamir was a barrier, an obstacle resisting the assaults of human communities; it was only with the rapid progress of the geographical sciences and the increasingly widespread infiltration of the European element and spirit around its base that the Pamir was able to become a goal, I mean a scientific goal of disinterested study (...).

When, in 1838, Captain Wood, as the first pioneer of the positive science of facts to be recorded and compared, climbed the difficult slopes of the "Roof of the World", it could be said that he was undertaking the discovery of a terra incognita. On February 19, 1838, the day her gracious Majesty the Queen of England acceded to the throne, he discovered Lake Sar-i-koul, to which he gave the name Lake Victoria. One of the main sources of the Oxus had been discovered.

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