Vintage Medical Furnishings Hit The Hot Zone
I think we’re at the tail end of the “industrial, stripped down” trend. Curiously, medical cabinets, which I would have thought belonged in that category, have become a hot ticket.
Take this vintage beauty for example.
It’s from Urban Archaeology and weighs in at a whopping $19,500. Yikes. That price is a little pre-recessionista, dontcha think? But the piece sure is fantastic.
Anyway, after my blood pressure returned to normal, I thought I’d take a little tour around the online hospital furniture wards to see if this trend is going as viral and my need to write bad double entendres. Let’s see what the Internet coughed up.
I love this cabinet from Furniture Love. It’s made by a Belgian medical furniture company. You can see more photos of it on their site. As with most of the things I found, this has been sold. But you might Google the furniture company’s name to find more.
These cabinets come from the 1940′s via Past Present Future. This company will sell you the piece “as-is”, or refinished. The price for this cabinet is $1,025 restored.
Twenty Gauge, a vintage metal furniture company from California is holding their winter sale. with 30-50% off their entire stock. They will also operate on your vintage parts so they look shiny new. But sometimes a  little patina can be a good thing.
Here’s another 1940′s cabinet from Grant Hospital, in Chicago. It retails for only $675. I found it at Urban Remains, one of the best Medical Furniture Wards on the Internet (in my humble opinion). Here’s more.
Hey, this early 1900′s cabinet (left), from Urban Remains, would make a nice lower-priced substitute for the cabinet at the top of this post. Price? A healthy $1,085. The one the left is typical of many of their stock, which is enormous.
These vintage medical pieces would look lively in a bathroom, a contemporary living room, hallway, and home office. Truly, the imagination is your only limit. So there is none.
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Insightful article Jennifer.
Vintage medical cabinets, especially stainless, are all the rage in Austin, TX.
As you pointed out, their versatility of use and size means they can go anywhere…indoor or out. Perfect for plants because a little overflow doesn’t matter.
For Gen Xers who move a lot, with stainless or soda blasted steel, you don’t have to worry about nasty scratches.
Linda