Bookcase

This is a very large bookcase I got cleaning out a house in Florida it measures 80”x18”x86”
It has Davison tag on it but I keep getting Davidson when I try to look it up

 

This Davison's, no?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davison's

Debora

 

Logo changed from this to this in 1980 to match new parent company Macy's. Likely to be 1960s. Sure some will come along and correct me if I'm too far off.

http://skycity2.blogspot.com/2006/07/davison_07.html

Debora

 

Gothic Revival in style.

 

You know... I'm going to (respectfully) disagree. A true Gothic arch is pointed like this example.

Debora

 

Yeah, I am goin with Debora on this one.
Bookcase maybe many styles but, Gothic ain't one of them.

 

The arches on your bookcase are called "tombstone" arches, usually associated with "Queen Anne" but, cabinet isn't what i would call QA. It has those fluted "pilasters" with greek "capitals" on top as well. As is common with "modern" furniture, many different style elements all rolled into one piece.

 

Those arches are "Romanesque" and derive from north Italian examples from the Renaissance, going back, ultimately, to Rome. I'd guess ca. 1970-80 on this. This was a premium piece, "classed up" with traditional decoration instead of the prevailing stripped-down (i.e. cheap) modernism of the time.

 

I hear you purists. Over here, though, anything that looks faintly churchy like this gets called Gothic Revival.