Cabinet
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Historically, the cupboard housed utilitarian items in the common household— from plates and dishes to important documents to clothing and memorabilia. It became the primary locus of exchange and discourse between family and friends. Unlike other furniture, the cupboard contains a private world for storage, archiving, and comparison. Whereas a chair, bed, or table, are designed to interact directly with the human body; the cupboard's purpose is that of a repository for the artifacts of human interest. It stored the first manuscripts and folios, codices, and the like, and was a fixture in early libraries. The cupboard was a device for the physical organization of objects through one's cognitive management scheme: an everyman's "cabinet of wonders" and a prototype of an interactive computing system.
See Also
- Wonder Cabinet
- Encyclopedia
- Commerce
- Cabinet
- TS Eliot
- WTC
