Directoire Case Pieces and Storage Cabinets
DIRECTOIRE STYLE
Formed in the wake of the Jacobin Reign of Terror’s bloody guillotine, the Directoire was established to lead France into order through the leadership of a five-member council of directors. It was brief, lasting only from 1795 to 1799, ending with Napoléon Bonaparte’s coup d’état, and was economically tumultuous. Yet it was an essential bridge between the era of Louis XVI and the elaborate Empire style that followed, with Directoire furniture and decorative arts shaped by a royal passion for classical design and an enthusiasm for postrevolutionary France.
Much of the country’s furniture production had halted during the French Revolution when the furniture guilds system was abolished, but during the Directoire period, the cabinetmakers restarted their businesses, such as François-Honoré-Georges and Jacob-Desmalter who established a new workshop called Jacob-Frères. Pieces made in walnut, elm, mahogany and other inexpensive materials incorporated influences ranging from Egypt to Pompeii, with popular forms including the curule armchair based on an ancient Roman design. The aesthetics of the transitional style were more austere than during the monarchy, with court cabinetmaker Jean-Baptiste Sené, for instance, reimagining his workshop’s neoclassical-style furniture with ungilded surfaces and a reduction of ornamentation.
Symbols referencing the revolutionary tenets of liberty, equality and fraternity were frequently carved into Directoire furnishings, such as the Phrygian cap, clasped hands and the fasces, which is an image of a bound bundle of sticks adopted from the Roman Republic, where it was seen as an emblem of strength through unity.
Elements of the French Directoire style continued through Empire style. Designers Charles Percier and Pierre-François-Léonard Fontaine are credited today as major proponents of both movements. The classically inspired furniture design is represented in pieces such as the boat-shaped daybed and the klismos chair, which endured in French interiors as well as in styles abroad, including American Directoire.
Find a collection of antique Directoire chairs, tables, daybeds, decorative objects and other furniture on 1stDibs.
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Style: Directoire
French Paint Decorated Directoire Petite Commode Jewelry Chest by Lewis Mittman
Located in Swedesboro, NJ
This exquisite French paint decorated Directoire style petite commode jewelry chest by Lewis Mittman beautifully captures the elegance of neoclassical design. Crafted with attention ...
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20th Century American Directoire Case Pieces and Storage Cabinets
Materials
Wood
$1,036 Sale Price
20% Off
Pair Antique French Directoire Mahogany End Tables with Carrara Marble
Located in Dallas, TX
Pair Antique French Directoire Mahogany End Tables with Carrara Marble will make a delightful addition to your room, providing storage, display, perhaps a place for a lamp, three con...
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Mid-20th Century French Directoire Case Pieces and Storage Cabinets
Materials
Carrara Marble, Brass
Late 18th Century Directoire Provençal Oak Commode
Located in High Point, NC
Wonderful late 18th century Director commode in oak.
This commode is of excellent scale. the top is made from three planks, and follows down to raised paneled sides for added desig...
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Late 18th Century French Antique Directoire Case Pieces and Storage Cabinets
Materials
Brass
French Painted Antique Style Dresser
Located in Westwood, NJ
In a painted antique finish with a molded edge rectangular top, nine paneled drawers with lozenge detailing motifs, antiqued pewter handles, with a fluted base and raised on square t...
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21st Century and Contemporary Vietnamese Directoire Case Pieces and Storage Cabinets
Materials
Wood
$6,927 / item
Very Fine Antique Dovetailed Leather top Letter Secretary Desk Chest of Drawers
Located in Rockaway, NJ
Very Fine Antique Dovetailed Leather top Letter Secretary Desk Chest of Drawers MINT
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20th Century American Directoire Case Pieces and Storage Cabinets
Materials
Mahogany
Paint Decorated Faux Bamboo Style Triple Dresser, circa 1970
Located in Swedesboro, NJ
This paint-decorated faux bamboo style triple dresser, circa 1970, is a striking example of mid-century craftsmanship infused with timeless exotic flair. Designed to mimic the elegan...
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1970s Unknown Vintage Directoire Case Pieces and Storage Cabinets
Materials
Walnut
$1,516 Sale Price
20% Off
Baker Directoire Empire Style Ring Pulls 6 Drawers High Chest Dresser MINT!
Located in Rockaway, NJ
Baker Directoire Empire Style Ring Pulls 6 Drawers High Chest Dresser MINT!
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20th Century American Directoire Case Pieces and Storage Cabinets
Materials
Brass
Directoire Style Desk Solid Cherry with Leather Pad and Covered Storage Space
Located in Landivy, FR
This desk belongs to the MELANIE collection that proposes handcraft modernized reinterpretated pieces of furniture from the French Directoire style at the end of the 18th century.
T...
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2010s French Directoire Case Pieces and Storage Cabinets
Materials
Wood, Cherry, Oak, Lacquer
French Handcrafted Directoire Style 2-Door Cabinet in Solid Cherry Wood
Located in Landivy, FR
This 2 doors small sideboard ( "mini-bahut") is a hand-crafted reproduction of the French Directoire Style at the end of the 18th century. This ...
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2010s French Directoire Case Pieces and Storage Cabinets
Materials
Brass
Early 19th Century French Three Drawer Commode
Located in Gloucestershire, GB
An elegant French commode, called a "Sauteuse" because of it's shapely, long legs ready to spring forth!
Original ebonised finish with decorative brass drawer handles and escutcheons...
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19th Century French Antique Directoire Case Pieces and Storage Cabinets
Materials
Wood
French Directoire Style 2-door 3-drawer cabinet in solid wild cherry wood
Located in Landivy, FR
This cabinet with 2 doors and 3 independent drawers belongs to our MELANIE collection that proposes handcrafted modernized reinterpretated pieces of furniture from the French Louis X...
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2010s French Directoire Case Pieces and Storage Cabinets
Materials
Wood, Cherry, Oak
French Directoire Style Paint Decorated Two Drawer Baker Commode Dresser
Located in Swedesboro, NJ
This exquisite French Directoire style commode dresser by Baker Furniture showcases refined elegance and timeless craftsmanship. Featuring a beautifully paint-decorated finish in sof...
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1960s American Vintage Directoire Case Pieces and Storage Cabinets
Materials
Walnut
$2,396 Sale Price
20% Off
2-door 3-drawer Cabinet in solid oak, a French Directoire style interpretation
Located in Landivy, FR
This 2 doors cabinet is a handmade and modernized interpretation of a French Directoire style cabinet at the end of the 18th century. The des...
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2010s French Directoire Case Pieces and Storage Cabinets
Materials
Cherry, Oak
French Directoire Style interpreted handcrafted TV cabinet in solid cherry wood
Located in Landivy, FR
This TV cabinet is a free hand crafted interpretation of the French Directoire Style at the end of the 18th century. This period style is remarkable with its straight, classical and ...
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2010s French Directoire Case Pieces and Storage Cabinets
Materials
Brass
French Directoire style handcrafted Desk in solid wood, with leather pad
Located in Landivy, FR
This desk with top storage compartments is a craft-handed re-interpretation of the French Directoire style at the end of the 18th century.
The design of...
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2010s French Directoire Case Pieces and Storage Cabinets
Materials
Brass
French Directoire style handcrafted striped Bonnetiere in solid cherry wood
Located in Landivy, FR
This piece belongs to our MELANIE collection, which is a handmade modernized interpretation of this French Directoire style. The Directoire periode started at the end of the 18th cen...
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2010s French Directoire Case Pieces and Storage Cabinets
Materials
Wood, Cherry, Lacquer, Oak
Fine Quality Maison Jansen Style Directoire Tall Dresser Wardrobe
Located in Swedesboro, NJ
This Maison Jansen style Directoire tall dresser wardrobe exemplifies the refined elegance and superior craftsmanship for which the renowned Parisian design house is celebrated. Insp...
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1950s French Vintage Directoire Case Pieces and Storage Cabinets
Materials
Brass
$2,600 Sale Price
20% Off
Directoire-Style Commode with Marble Top
Located in New York, NY
Directoire- style commode with marble top on tapered legs.
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20th Century French Directoire Case Pieces and Storage Cabinets
Materials
Carrara Marble
French Directoire Style gray desk in solid oak wood with a leather pad
Located in Landivy, FR
This desk is a craft-handed reproduction of the French Directoire style at the end of the 18th century. The design of this period is remarkable with its straight, classical and time...
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2010s French Directoire Case Pieces and Storage Cabinets
Materials
Wood, Cherry, Oak, Lacquer
French Directoire Style Handcrafted Customizable 4-Drawer Chest in Solid Wood
Located in Landivy, FR
This 4 drawer chest is a handmade reproduction of the French Directoire style at the end of the 18th century. This period is remarkable for its straight, classical and timeless lines...
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2010s French Directoire Case Pieces and Storage Cabinets
Materials
Brass
French Directoire style handcrafted lacquered desk with solid wood
leather pad
Located in Landivy, FR
This desk is a craft-handed reproduction of the French Directoire style at the end of the 18th century. The design of this period is remarkable with its straight, classical and timel...
Category
2010s French Directoire Case Pieces and Storage Cabinets
Materials
Cherry, Wood, Oak, Lacquer
Late 19th Century Swedish Pine Secretaire with Fall-Front Desk Top
Located in Gloucestershire, GB
Late 19th Century Swedish secretaire with fall-front desk top.
This style of desk was very popular in the 18th and 19th century in Sweden.
It offers an ingenious array of storage pos...
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Late 19th Century Swedish Antique Directoire Case Pieces and Storage Cabinets
Materials
Pine
French Consulat Mahogany Period Commode with Paw Feet and Fossil Marble Top
Located in Pembroke, MA
French Consulat period mahogany commode with three-drawers, ebonized griffin feet and pilasters, and black fossil marble top. Gilt bronze escutcheons i...
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Early 19th Century French Antique Directoire Case Pieces and Storage Cabinets
Materials
Ormolu, Bronze
French Directoire Style 19th Century Walnut Commode with Grey Marble Top
Located in Atlanta, GA
A French Directoire style walnut commode from the 19th century, with three drawers, grey marble top, brass accents and fluted posts. Created in France during the 19th century, this w...
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19th Century French Antique Directoire Case Pieces and Storage Cabinets
Materials
Marble, Brass
Fine Quality French Mahogany Bronze Mounted Secretary Desk Bookcase Top
Located in Swedesboro, NJ
This fine French mahogany bronze mounted secretary desk with bookcase top exemplifies the elegance and craftsmanship of late 19th to early 20th century French furniture. Constructed ...
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1940s French Vintage Directoire Case Pieces and Storage Cabinets
Materials
Carrara Marble, Bronze
$3,196 Sale Price
20% Off
Louis XVI–Style Tambour Bureau Cabinet in Mahogany and gilt bronze, 19th Century
Located in NICE, FR
This elegant Louis XVI–style bureau cabinet dates from the Napoleon III period, late 19th century, and exemplifies the refined craftsmanship of the great Parisian ébénistes. Crafted ...
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Late 19th Century French Antique Directoire Case Pieces and Storage Cabinets
Materials
Bronze
Directoire Mahogany And Brass Mounted Commode
Located in Essex, MA
With a rectangular white marble top with rounded corners over a conforming case with three smaller top drawers over two long drawers each with brass moldings...
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1790s French Antique Directoire Case Pieces and Storage Cabinets
Materials
Marble, Brass
18th Century French Directoire Satinwood Mahogany Marble Top Commode
Located in Essex, MA
Beautiful Directoire or Late Louis XVI Commode or Chest of Drawers. Satinwood panels and drawer fronts. Original hardware. Original White Marble Top with Bronze Gallery. Toupe Fe...
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18th Century French Antique Directoire Case Pieces and Storage Cabinets
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Large French Directoire Period Traveling Secretary Desk
Located in Pembroke, MA
This French Directoire traveling secretary is made of walnut. Its large size is unusual and would make an impressive statement in a study. The top sec...
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Late 18th Century French Antique Directoire Case Pieces and Storage Cabinets
Materials
Brass, Iron
Decca French Neoclassical Louis XVI Style Cream
Gold Bar Cabinet Buffet (B)
By Decca
Located in Philadelphia, PA
French Neoclassical Louis XVI Style Cream & Gold Painted Bar Cabinet by Decca (B). Item features a heavy two part construction with crackle distres...
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Late 20th Century Unknown Directoire Case Pieces and Storage Cabinets
Materials
Masonite, Paint
French 1900s Directoire Style Walnut Three-Drawer Commode with Banding
Located in Atlanta, GA
A French Directoire style walnut commode from the early 20th century, with three drawers, banding and tapered legs. Born in France during the early years of the 20th century, this Di...
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Early 20th Century French Directoire Case Pieces and Storage Cabinets
Materials
Walnut
French Antique Style Dresser
Located in Westwood, NJ
In a dark walnut finish with a molded edge rectangular top, nine paneled drawers with lozenge detailing motifs, antiqued pewter handles, with a fluted base and raised on square taper...
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21st Century and Contemporary Vietnamese Directoire Case Pieces and Storage Cabinets
Materials
Wood
$6,927 / item
Antique French Burl Elmwood Consulat Style Commode, Circa 1880
Located in Dallas, TX
The Consulat style is a subset of the Directoire period, coinciding with the initial consolidation of power by Napoleon Bonaparte (roughly 1799-1804). Both historically and culturall...
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Late 19th Century French Antique Directoire Case Pieces and Storage Cabinets
Materials
Metal
Antique Directoire Style Mahogany Petite Vitrine with Carrara Marble
Located in Dallas, TX
Antique Directoire Style Mahogany Petite Vitrine with Carrara Marble was hand-crafted in the mid-1900s out of exotic imported mahogany, then trimmed in brass and fitted with brass dr...
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Mid-20th Century French Directoire Case Pieces and Storage Cabinets
Materials
Carrara Marble, Brass
Vicentine Direttorio walnut dresser from the 1700s
By A. Manzoni
Located in Villa Verucchio, Emilia-Romagna
An 18th-Century Masterpiece: 18th-Century Vicentine Directory Walnut Chest of Drawers
Furnishing one's home with period furniture means adding a touch of history and sophistication ...
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18th Century Italian Antique Directoire Case Pieces and Storage Cabinets
Materials
Nutwood
Small Directoire Cylinder Desk In Mahogany
Located in Kent, Dover
A small French Directoire mahogany cylinder desk, with brass detailing throughout. The roll top hiding a witing slope with a tooled leather top and two drawers. Above, a marble galle...
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1790s French Antique Directoire Case Pieces and Storage Cabinets
Materials
Marble, Brass
Walnut Panetière Early 19th Century
Located in Brussels, Brussels
Superb and rare walnut panetière from the beginning of the 19th century
This piece of furniture were used in the past to store the bread in the south of France. Provence region
Very...
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19th Century French Antique Directoire Case Pieces and Storage Cabinets
Materials
Walnut
French Directoire Buffet
Located in Westwood, NJ
French Directoire Buffet, with custom-designed hand-wrought iron face plates and pulls both accent and accentuate the perfectly sized Buffet. ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Asian Directoire Case Pieces and Storage Cabinets
Materials
Wood
$4,543 Sale Price / item
20% Off
French Vitrine Cabinet, Glass Door Walnut, Rosewood with Ormolu Mounts
Located in Toronto, CA
A French vitrine cabinet with glass door and sides, in walnut with rosewood and tulipwood, top
with a grey marble top.
The ormolu mounts give the cabinet the Louis XV styling tha...
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Early 20th Century French Directoire Case Pieces and Storage Cabinets
Materials
Walnut
18th Century Directoire Deux-Corps
Located in Isle Sur La Sorgue, Vaucluse
Cupboard or sideboard in two parts, dating from the Directoire period. The doors with losange motifs. The lower section has a small central drawer. Elegant cornice.
A beautiful and ...
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18th Century and Earlier French Antique Directoire Case Pieces and Storage Cabinets
French 19th Century Brass and Mahogany veneered Directoire Style Cylinder Bureau
Located in Berlin, DE
French 19th Century Brass Inlaid and Mahogany veneered Directoire Style Cylinder Bureau
A 19th century mahogany cylinder bureau with the rectangular top surrounded by a pierced brass gallery, above two mirrored panelled doors, the roll-top opening to reveal a sliding leather writing surface surmounted by three drawers and a shelf, above two frieze drawers, on fluted circular tapering legs headed by asperges and terminated by cast sabot. The mirrored paneled doors, and the roll top are distinguished by its brass inlays that beautifully frame and outline the design of the item. Together with the brass handles, the brass gallery and the brass toupie feet this cylinder bureau displays...
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19th Century French Antique Directoire Case Pieces and Storage Cabinets
Materials
Brass
Veneto sideboard late 1700s walnut
By A. Manzoni
Located in Villa Verucchio, Emilia-Romagna
Elegant Late 18th century Venetian Sideboard in Walnut
A jewel of Veneto craftsmanship that enriches any room with historic charm and timeless elegance. This sideboard, made in the l...
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1760s Italian Antique Directoire Case Pieces and Storage Cabinets
Materials
Nutwood
19th Century, French Center Cabinet with Marble Top
Located in IT
19th century, French center cabinet with marble top
This central cabinet was made in France, during the Directoire period, between the late eighteenth and the beginning of the ninet...
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Early 19th Century Antique Directoire Case Pieces and Storage Cabinets
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Napoleon III Etagere
Japonism ALPHONSE GIROUX PARIS
Located in Madrid, ES
A Napoleon III Etagere 'japonism' in ormolu and grave glass
Modeled as rods of bamboo mounted with bamboo leaves on the legs, the top suspended with four handles and with three circular tiers each engraved with floral and ivy designs and surrounded by a three-quarter pierced gallery, the upper tier signed 'ALPH. GIROUX PARIS...
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19th Century French Antique Directoire Case Pieces and Storage Cabinets
Materials
Bronze
18th Century Directoire Commode, Mahogany, Walnut and Sycamore
Located in Scottsdale, AZ
18th Century Directoire Commode, Mahogany, Walnut and Sycamore with Original hardware. has CHAPNIS stamped. Piece is gorgeous and pr...
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Late 18th Century French Antique Directoire Case Pieces and Storage Cabinets
Materials
Mahogany, Sycamore, Walnut
Faux Bamboo Bronze Shelf in the Style of Maison Baguès
Located in New York, NY
Faux bamboo bronze shelf in the style of Maison Baguès. Has three glass shelves and a nice greenish patina to the bronze.
Category
1950s Vintage Directoire Case Pieces and Storage Cabinets
Materials
Bronze
Directoire case pieces and storage cabinets for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a broad range of unique Directoire case pieces and storage cabinets for sale on 1stDibs. Many of these items were first offered in the 21st Century and Contemporary, but contemporary artisans have continued to produce works inspired by this style. If you’re looking to add vintage case pieces and storage cabinets created in this style to your space, the works available on 1stDibs include case pieces and storage cabinets, tables, more furniture and collectibles and other home furnishings, frequently crafted with wood, metal and other materials. If you’re shopping for used Directoire case pieces and storage cabinets made in a specific country, there are Europe, France, and North America pieces for sale on 1stDibs. While there are many designers and brands associated with original case pieces and storage cabinets, popular names associated with this style include Maison Jansen, Decca, Baker Furniture Company, and Europa Antiques. It’s true that these talented designers have at times inspired knockoffs, but our experienced specialists have partnered with only top vetted sellers to offer authentic pieces that come with a buyer protection guarantee. Prices for case pieces and storage cabinets differ depending upon multiple factors, including designer, materials, construction methods, condition and provenance. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $1,000 and tops out at $53,399 while the average work can sell for $5,973.
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