File Cabinet 

One of the things that a home and its contents do for us is remind us that we are who we think we are. In public, we may have to put on an up-to-the-minute image and act as we are expected to act. But when we return home, even if we have to work there, we must be able to discard the image and be exactly who we are.

It is at home that many of us show ourselves to be followers of the Arts & Crafts Movement.

If you choose to keep a home office, files are an inevitable adjunct to it. Having a place to keep them is another opportunity to follow the principle of "having nothing in your home that's not useful and beautiful." Like an Arts & Crafts filing cabinet.

Commissioned by a client in Florida, the cabinet you see is of quartered white oak, fumed and finished to standard. It also features the most effective modern drawer glides, so not only is it useful but also easy to use even with 100 pounds of documents aboard.

With the beauty and fire of quartered oak, it would be the perfect companion to a drop-front writing desk cunningly fashioned deep enough to conceal the inevitable computer. Or maybe the Secretary desk featured elsewhere in this site.

It's set up for modern hanging files, four drawers of them.

The cabinet features classic tusk and tenon joinery securing recessed panel sides.