What wood are they usually made from?

Walnut veneer over a carcase, more often than anything else. It is named in 115 of the 240 titles on Sellingantiques, with burr walnut specified in 47 and figured walnut in 26. The rest spread thinly across oak, pine, maple, birch, sycamore, satinwood and lacquer. Birds eye maple turns up in about a dozen titles.

What is a compactum wardrobe?

A wardrobe fitted out inside with trays, drawers and slides alongside the hanging space, usually sold as a gentleman's wardrobe. Deep-door gents wardrobes belong to the same group. Compactums account for about one in seven of the category. Two spellings run side by side, compactum in 24 titles and compactom in 8.

How old are Art Deco wardrobes?

The dealers' dated fields run 1900 to 1930, but the weight sits late: 172 listings fall in the 1930s and 60 in the 1920s, with only four before 1920. Titles echo that, with c1930 in 37 and c1920 in 20. Several listings simply say circa 1930 or 1930's rather than a single year.

Are French Art Deco wardrobes common?

No. Continental pieces are scarce in this archive. Only 13 titles use the word armoire at all, and some of those use it as a plain synonym for wardrobe. A signed French wardrobe and two French oak armoires are the only clearly Continental entries in the sample.

Which sizes come up for sale?

Single, double, triple and occasional four-door widths. Double is the commonest stated size at 36 titles, with triple just behind on 31. At the small end sit half-sized, single-door, child's and hall wardrobes, together under a tenth of the category.

How often do these come to market?

About 30 a year on Sellingantiques, and 39 different dealers have listed one, so the category is spread thinly rather than held by a few specialists. Pairs are the scarcest thing in it. A pair of two-door wardrobes, a near pair in walnut and a pair of painted wardrobes each appear once across the whole archive.

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A free-standing bedroom wardrobe of the 1920s and 1930s, usually veneered in figured walnut, built to hang and store clothes as part of a matched bedroom suite.