chiffonier

But other, more emphatic signs of adulthood—stud or cuff-button boxes, wall pictures, the telling odds and ends that collect on chiffonier tops—had been removed from the room in 1940, when the two young men “branched out” and took an apartment of their own.

Her chiffonier overflows with Union Jack-emblazoned souvenirs like the tiny porcelain thimble to commemorate the 1981 wedding of Prince Charles and then Lady Diana Spencer, and the hefty ceramic whisky bottles to mark Princes William’s and Harry’s births in 1982 and 1984 respectively.

One of my prized possessions is a cherry-wood Louis XV chiffonier with four little drawers that my father made for my mother for their engagement party in 1930.

He started walking around the room, very slow and all, the way he always did, picking up your personal stuff off your desk and chiffonier.

I sneaked a look to see what he was fiddling around with on my chiffonier.