Vertico
The Vertiko , occasionally also spelled Vertikow , is a vertically oriented container furniture. Usually it has two doors and a drawer with a cover plate above. It is higher than a dresser , but lower than a cupboard and usually has a shelf-like attachment, which for setting up Nippes served.
Surname
The name is probably derived from its first manufacturer, the Berlin master carpenter Otto Vertikow. The vertical construction may also have contributed to the naming. However, neither variant is guaranteed.
use
Due to the low height, the furniture could also be set up in simpler houses with low rooms, but on the other hand it offered more storage space than a chest of drawers, but there was still space for decorative objects on the top plate and the top. Behind the two doors you could z. B. Store dishes, table linen in the drawer. The typical location was the living room .
Manufacturing
This type of furniture was produced from around 1860 to 1910, i.e. mainly in the style of historicism or art nouveau . The wood and workmanship of most Vertikos show that it was a typical piece of furniture for the lower and middle classes of the population, which was also affordable through industrial production. So was z. B. often uses inexpensive softwood and creates the impression of more valuable wood through glazes or painted grain ; often these pieces were later extracted and are now wood-sighted. Ornaments, moldings and carvings were mostly made by machine, but machine-turned elements and plywood were also used.
literature
- Georg Brühl: Vertiko porcelain. 1860-1920 . Edition Leipzig, Leipzig 1989, ISBN 3-361-00142-0 .
- Georg Brühl: Vertiko and chaise longue. German furniture from the early days . Seemann, Leipzig 1992, ISBN 3-363-00532-6 .
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Footnotes
- ↑ Wolfgang Pfeifer : Etymological Dictionary of German. dtv, Munich, 6th edition 2003, ISBN 3-423-32511-9 , p. 1511.