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, none with the 144-inch set, praise the solid build but warn about separately sold trim and misaligned doors
No review covers the 144-inch set. Crate & Barrel shows the same reviews on every Calypso page; its 4.5-star average covers 280 ratings across the whole line. Room×Lab read 228 distinct written reviews from August 2022 to September 2026, mostly of media consoles and open hutches, which count in the stars and appear here only where noted. Owner reports come from the line's modular pieces in natural and black: 36-inch natural tall glass-door cabinets, glass-door hutches, bases with glass or wood doors, cap-and-base trim, a single glass-door component and two bookcases with glass-door storage, some in multi-column walls. Few owners say how long they've used them. Pairs of reviews by CandB Fans (September 14, 2026) and Mary (August 19, 2022) may each come from one household, so review counts are not counts of separate owners.
Room×Lab rating: 6.3 out of 10 (limited confidence). No owner has reviewed the 144-inch set. Owners of Calypso glass-door cabinets, hutches and bases mostly praise the look, solid feel and dust-free display, but repeated complaints about separately sold caps and bases, misaligned doors and delivery damage weigh on the line-wide 4.5 stars.
- Solid build praised, with a minority of quality complaints: 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 says it is particle board and chipped at move-in; natural bookcase and tall-cabinet owners call quality poor for the price; a black glass-door base owner says the paint scuffs easily.
- Several buyers were surprised that caps and bases are sold separately: 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: 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 that the 144-inch set includes caps, bases, tip restraints and wall anchors per column, and check door alignment and edges on delivery. Two owners of other black Calypso pieces noted a strong chemical smell lasting days to months.