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Étagère

set of hanging or standing open shelves for display

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 30, 2025
Entity authorityQ1370886 ↗
Source-derived summary

An étagère (French: [etaʒɛʁ]) is a French set of hanging or standing open shelves for the display of collections of objects or ornaments.

The étagère became a popular form of furniture in the nineteenth century. Similar to the what-not, the shelves of the étagère provided extra space for the display of the accumulation of knickknacks that was typical of Victorian home decor. Each level is sometimes referred to as a tier.

The term étagère is also used for a multi-tiered cake stand.

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External links

Media related to Étagères at Wikimedia Commons

Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Étagère" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol.

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Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1911—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Étagère, hanging and standing can be independently traced.
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This entry incorporates text from “Étagère” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.