Ming Bookshelf, Black Lacquer colour-red simple lines

simple lines

The lattice design in the upper panels of this beautiful warm elm screen

Although a very contemporary style it still has some classic oriental features

We have also included three removable shelves inside

Ming Bookshelf, Black Lacquer colour-red simple linesMade from solid elm, our black lacquer bookshelf is designed so the middle shelf houses two shallow drawers with brass handles for extra storage. Bookshelves were used by the ancient Chinese scholarly classes, but unlike in the west, they preferred to stack books on the shelves rather than have them stood upright. Shelves therefore tended to be deeper than their western equivalent. This reproduction version is therefore a little narrower than the