What is it in furniture?

Highboy is a high socket that is usually produced in two separate pieces. The lower part is like Lowboy, a short chest of two or three long legs. The upper part of Highboy has drawers that differ in size and number depending on the piece. The name Highboy is from French bois , which means wood and haut , which means high. The type of wood and the style used for the highBOYs varies.

Colonial Style Highboys can have eight or more drawers. They were often made of cherry and the upper part can be a little narrower than at the bottom. William and Mary's style is one of the first American highboys. The legs on these highboys are often less curved than the legs on the later highboys. These highboys were often made of mahogany and elegantly carved. The sockets were usually flat and represented many decorative brass pulls. Many Queen Anne Highboys had a cabriole or curved legs. Often they also had the upper part of the bonnet made of added archesThe wood on the top of Highboy, usually contained carved contributions in design.

Highboy can be called chest on the chest or double chest. In the UK (Great Britain) it can be referred to as Tallboy. While some highboys have drawers for all the same lengths, many of them have a range of drawer lengths. Some highboys even have drawers of different depths, such as two deeper drawers near the bottom of the piece.

Highboy shake style is in line with the folding style of furniture quite unemployed by direct lines. It is more like Armoire or a high shelf unit with doors, because it often does not have legs and usually has a door cabinet near the top of the piece. Shaker Highboy can also be made in one piece as Armoire and unlike other HighBoys.