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These glass-fronted shelves are today collectible antiques highly desired by collectors. With regularity, these bookcases appear in auctions and internet sites and, what originally cost $75 or so will now be sold for $900 or more. [1] During World War II 90% of the company's business in the US was converted to produce military equipment.
These included bibliotheques or bookcases with glass doors, and Vitrines, or cabinets with glass doors, where precious objects could be displayed. These had very ornate marquetry patterns on the doors in the earlier years of the reign, but became much simpler, with mahogany and oak trimmed with gilded bronze, in the later years. [17]
A bookcase may be fitted with glass doors [2] that can be closed to protect the books from dust or moisture. Bookcase doors are almost always glazed with glass, so as to allow the spines of the books to be read. [3] Especially valuable rare books may be kept in locked cases with wooden or glazed doors.
A secretary desk or escritoire is made of a base of wide drawers topped by a desk with a hinged desktop surface, which is in turn topped by a bookcase usually closed with a pair of doors, often made of glass. The whole is usually a single, tall and heavy piece of furniture.
The 1911 version was made of oak and had metal bins. Its fixtures were made from glass and aluminum. [71] The company was founded in 1906, and had 33 employees in 1915. [72] Kalamazoo Stove Company made the Kalamazoo Kitchen Kabinet in Kalamazoo, Michigan. The product was all-metal and white-enameled. [73]
The interior is completed by an antique clock with a pendulum, a lomber table, a sideboard, a bookcase where books on chemistry are next to works on local history, history and fiction (all the books in the bookcase have gift inscriptions from the authors to Aleksandr Arbuzov), [78] as well as indoor flowers tended by Ekaterina Arbuzova. [22]