Crate & Barrel Calypso Modular Glass-Door Storage Cabinets
Crate & Barrel Calypso Modular Glass-Door Storage Cabinets by Crate & Barrel — office storage, Overall: 144" W x 18" D x 90.82" H. Compare it with similar pieces across brands, and see the rooms it appears in.
- Brand: Crate & Barrel
- Category: Office storage
- Price: $8,828
- Dimensions: Overall: 144" W x 18" D x 90.82" H
- Materials: glass, wood
- Colours: black, natural
- Rooms: Home office
Room×Lab Review · Review updated September 29, 2026
Calypso glass-door owners praise the solid build and display storage but warn about trim sold separately and doors that don't line up
The retailer aggregate covers 280 unfiltered ratings and can include records excluded from product-specific claims; it is not a qualified-owner count. 228 distinct retailer comments were studied. Crate & Barrel shows one review pool across the Calypso line. Owner experience here comes from buyers of the family's modular pieces in natural and black: 36-inch natural tall glass-door cabinets, glass-door hutches, cabinet bases with glass or wood doors, cap-and-base trim, a single glass-door component and two bookcases with glass-door storage. Some owners describe multi-column walls, but no review is filed under the 144-inch set. Most of the pool covers media consoles and open hutches, left out of the owner themes except where noted, yet included in the star rating. Findings are tied to the finish and piece each owner named. Few owners say how long they have used their pieces. Linked reviews date from August 2022 to September 2026; purchase-verification and incentive status is unknown. Some share an author name and date (two by CandB Fans on September 14, 2026; two by Mary on August 19, 2022) and may be one household, so linked counts are not counts of independent owners.
Room×Lab rating: 6.3 out of 10 (limited confidence). Owners of Calypso glass-door cabinets, hutches and bases mostly praise the look, the solid feel and the display storage. The main caveat is that no review covers the 144-inch set itself. Repeated complaints about separately sold caps and bases, misaligned doors and delivery damage weigh on the pooled 4.5 stars.
- Solid build praised, with a minority of quality complaints: Linked records: 15 favorable and 3 critical mentions about build quality and materials. — Tall cabinet, hutch and base owners call them solid, heavy and well made (one is a black open hutch). A black hutch owner called it particle board and saw an edge chip at move-in; natural bookcase and tall-cabinet owners judged quality poor for the price; a black glass-door base owner says the paint scuffs easily. Material claims are unverified.
- Several buyers were surprised that caps and bases are sold separately: Linked records: 5 favorable and 9 critical mentions about cap-and-base trim and what a listing includes. — Buyers of single black and natural hutches and bases say the listing or sales staff didn't make clear that the finishing cap and base are sold separately. They faced extra cost, sold-out parts or another delivery fee. Owners who bought the trim say it gives a clean finish. None of these reviews is of the 144-inch set.
- Doors and glass shelves: smooth for some, misaligned for others: Linked records: 5 favorable and 5 critical mentions about doors, hinges and glass shelves. — Owners like the smooth doors, quiet hinges, doors that tuck away and a cable hole. On the critical side, a repair visit couldn't align one owner's natural tall-cabinet doors, and a black hutch arrived damaged with misaligned doors twice.
Before buying
Confirm in writing if the 144-inch set includes cap and base trim, tip restraints and wall anchors per column. Check door alignment and edges on delivery. Two black Calypso owners (not glass-door pieces) noted a strong chemical smell lasting days to months.