They are large boxes that have a lid and are used to store countless items such as Clothes and Tools. They are made of high-quality resin and PVC, resistant to inclement weather and semi-waterproof. Two types can be distinguished: trunks, chests.
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The chest, chest (or chest in its smaller dimensions) is a piece of furniture in the form of a closed box, which is intended to store various objects such as bedding, belongings, etc.
The chest and other similar furniture (see last section) whose purpose is to be in the rooms, rest on more or less raised feet or on a bench, except for the chests and caskets due to their small dimensions .
The wooden ark and chest with elevated feet have been discovered in Egyptian tombs such as that of Amenhotep III from the 15th century BC. C. adorned with inlays and paintings. Among the Greeks, the ark had a quadrangular shape and short feet. It continued in this same form among the Romans, who reinforced it with iron or bronze plates. During the Empire, they came to have a lock and key, both in materials such as bronze or iron. During the Middle Ages they were covered with leather or painted cloth and reinforced with ironwork or decorated with metal fittings, the chest constituting one of the main pieces of furniture in the rooms. Those made of ivory or silver or enamelled bronze, quite common in the Middle Ages, were chests for storing jewels or for containing relics.
Florentine bridal chest from the 15th century.
Since the fourteenth century, chests and chests adorned with reliefs or with embossed guadameciles and sometimes inlaid appeared, remaining in this form for the following three centuries until the use of chests of drawers and cabinets made them disappear from the room the ark and other similar objects or luxury furniture. During the Renaissance, many chests or chests were shaped like urns with moving curved lines and received Plateresque decorations. The most elegant chests from this era are known as bridal chests or bridal caskets because they were often sent by the husband to his fiancée on the eve of the wedding. Of these pieces of furniture, the Venetians and Florentines of the 16th century are famous for their figures in relief and their inlays.
In the 17th century in Castilla, walnut chests were very common in the Valladolid area, and when they were made further north they were chestnut.
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