Where to buy kitchen dressers

For antique dressers, Country

Life’s Art Market correspondent Huon Mallalieu recommends ‘country auction houses or the smaller ones in London’. He cites the recent sale of an early19th-century oak dresser by Reeman Dansie of Colchester

(Country Life, March 15), which fetched £843, as ‘really rather a reasonable price’

ebay is also a good source, as is www.sellingantiques.co.uk. At the time of writing, the latter had several listed, from £535 for a 4ft Victorian pine dresser to £10,600 for an oak Welsh dresser of about 1750

Mark Penny at the Victorian Pine Workshop, near Bisley in Surrey, keeps a variety of sizes in stock. ‘A mid- to late-19thcentury, pine farmhouse-style two-piece dresser in a mid size (5ft) is usually priced at about £495 to £595,’ he says (victorianpine@aol.com; 07974 179466)

For new and reproduction models, Titchmarsh & Goodwin makes bespoke, fine English oak dressers—as well as other furniture—at its workshop in Suffolk. One of the most popular models (66in) retails at £4,793, but the company can make any size (www.titchmarsh-goodwin.co.uk; 01473 252158)

Cotswold Country Interiors has a sizeable range of painted, oak and pine dressers (0333 200 1725; www.cotswoldco.com)

For painted dressers, try John Lewis of Hungerford (www.johnlewis.co.uk/dressers; 0700 278 4726). The Kitchen Dresser Company in Lymington, Hampshire, is stocked in Liberty, London W1 and sells both bespoke and off-the-peg designs. A selection of heavily discounted models that have been used in photoshoots is available on its website (www. thekitchendresser.co.uk; 01782 575565)