For personal pleasure, they also created masterpieces of friendship intended for parents, personalities or friends. In Alsace, carpenters or cabinet makers offered to their fiancée a called miniature chest of drawers "courtesy chest of drawers".
For his own pleasure, during his hours of leisure or after retirement, a craftsman would often produce a scale model which summed up all his skill and brought together all the technical difficulties specific to his speciality.
The cabinet-maker produced a final work, as a tour de force or a challenge, summing up his knowledge and making one last display of his talent and skill.
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