Everything Has A Story -- Part One

When you "collect' furniture

rather than going to a furniture store and buying enough furniture

to fill your room,

Every

piece has a story

And the furnishings of Linderhof are no exception

My first story . . . .

The "bar" in the living room

It's German, Belgian, French or English

you pick!

They seem to be from the country that is chic at the moment!

I first fell in love with a German one,

called a Shrank

newly married our first couple friends had one

Stationed in Germany and loving antiques

they brought several pieces back with them

Alas, at that time big pieces of European furniture  were not being imported 

the only way to get something similar was to go to Europe and bring it back yourself

Furniture at the time we were married consisted of 

"plastic" Mediterranean or Early American maple

And so I yearned

Years and years later

We were in a consignment shop

And there was a "shrank"

for $600

We've seen some for sale

At a price twice that or more!

Why only $600?

It was a "classy" consignment shop

Most of the furniture there was early 18th century furniture

mostly American

rather than late 18th century furniture from Europe!

We bought it

Had a friend and his trailer haul it home for us

And he kept it while we decided where we were going to put it

And so, with some furniture arranging, it came to live in the living room at Linderhof

We love the heavily carved upper center door

And the carving on the bottom

drawers

Deep storage -- it holds lots of "stuff"

The top is marble which is nice when you use it as a bar

Sometimes we clear off the liquor bottles and put some of our decanters on display!

The story . . .

The age of the piece

How it traveled from Europe to find it's way eventually in the little consignment shop

And reminds us so much of the "Shrank" that we coveted so long ago

How we weren't look for something like this

(but rarely are we looking for a piece -- they just seem to find us!)

Had no idea that we would even own one

But there it was . . .

And home it came!

Oh, and do we call it a "Shrank" --

no we call it a sideboard

The living room sideboard!

Not everything has a story at Linderhof

But I love to share the stories of the things that do!