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<p>[QUOTE="afantiques, post: 204402, member: 25"]Social history renders the idea of an antique bar impossible. It was the rise of the middle classes in the middle of the twentieth century that led to the home bar as such. Previously, the workers went to the pub or bar to drink, the upper classes had drinks tucked away somewhere and a servant to bring them. </p><p><br /></p><p>When the middle classes lost their servants (possibly only a housekeeper or maid) after WWI, and certainly after WWII, there was no one to bring the drinks so the 'home bar' was invented. A later and even more extreme form was the 'wet bar' from the 60's and 70s, now considered irretrievably naff.</p><p><br /></p><p>I'd say that item is mid 20th C in an 'antique'ish style of no particular period. I really cannot see anything 'deco' about the style.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="afantiques, post: 204402, member: 25"]Social history renders the idea of an antique bar impossible. It was the rise of the middle classes in the middle of the twentieth century that led to the home bar as such. Previously, the workers went to the pub or bar to drink, the upper classes had drinks tucked away somewhere and a servant to bring them. When the middle classes lost their servants (possibly only a housekeeper or maid) after WWI, and certainly after WWII, there was no one to bring the drinks so the 'home bar' was invented. A later and even more extreme form was the 'wet bar' from the 60's and 70s, now considered irretrievably naff. I'd say that item is mid 20th C in an 'antique'ish style of no particular period. I really cannot see anything 'deco' about the style.[/QUOTE]
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