Tristan McLeay wrote:
> The kitchen dresser in our kitchen has cupboards down the
> bottom for crockery, a spice rack, and cupboards up the top
> for glasses, cups etc. It's probably about 1.5--2 m wide, where
> the m doesn't stand for mile. The bottom sticks out further than
> the top, which sticks out further than the middle; the shelf hence
> made above the bottom is where our telephone/diary etc. live.
What you describe was common in America until the 1950s, but
was commonly called "the kitchen furniture" in much of the U.S.