Campaign Furniture: The Kind That Can Be Taken Apart and Moved

A set of campaign-style colonial furniture. They were originally designed for transport: corners are protected with brass corner guards, panels have recessed brass handles and sunken keyholes, cabinets can be separated into upper and lower boxes, and chair and table legs can be unscrewed. The forms are square and simple, without carving; the wood is dark mahogany or teak. The brass has oxidized to a dark gold. Avoid: classical furniture with carvings and moldings, protruding decorative handles, shiny plated brass, furniture made as an inseparable, monolithic piece.

Translated from Chinese by AI.

一組行軍式的殖民家具。它們原本是為了搬運設計的:角落包著黃銅的護角、面板上是嵌入式的黃銅提把與凹入的鎖孔、櫃體可以分成上下兩箱、椅子與桌子的腿可以旋下來。形體是方正簡潔的,沒有雕花,木材是深色的桃花心木或柚木。黃銅已經氧化成暗金。避免:使用有雕花與線腳的古典家具、使用外凸的裝飾把手、讓黃銅做成亮面電鍍、把家具做成不可能拆解的整體造型。