Vintage view: Vintage cocktail cabinet

Kya deLongchamps takes an interesting look at the drink’s culture of the early to mid 20th-century and the remains of those days — the artful, beautiful and sometimes tacky cabinetry of the cocktail era.

Cocktail culture put the sparkle, chink, and heady mood into smoky Prohibition clubs, 1950s high society and insinuated itself beneath the wilting palms of beach-skewered tiki bars all over the world.

With a collection of gilded booze bottles sticky at the neck from occasional inversions, the giddy moment of indulgence in a hybrid, gem-dark tipple shimmered down through every middle class home.