D629 Dragonfly Curved Bar Cabinet

Initially established under the name Cipriani Homood, CPRN Homood seeks to elevate interiors with statement-making furniture. Headquartered in Pisa, this modern Italian manufacturer makes everything from dining tables and chairs to cabinets and sofas. The company describes itself as a “full-concept brand” for every element of the home. The name “Homood” is derived from the words “home” and “mood.”

CPRN Homood is committed to producing 100% of its quality furniture in Italy. It was founded in 1993 and is represented and promoted internationally by CIAC Cosmopolitan Home. CPRN Homood furniture is a collaboration between a team of talented designers and technicians. The team may include woodcarvers, upholsterers, and marble artists who refine each piece to meet high standards of function and style in accordance with the Italian furniture tradition. 

CPRN Homood’s designs use traditional handcrafting techniques to create contemporary silhouettes. The resulting furniture has an architectural appeal with crisp, modern lines. Everything about CPRN Homood furniture speaks to its sophistication, right down to the elegant colors and choice of quality materials like wood and metal. CPRN Homood furniture is also highly customizable and often made to exact client specifications.

CPRN Homood has released a number of collections. Neutral color palettes mark the Eclipse, Blue Moon and Cocoon collections for coordinating with many interior decor styles. The Sesto Senso collection introduced more metallic elements to the brand, while the Dragonfly collection drew inspiration from nature.

On 1stDibs, find CPRN Homood tables, case pieces, seating and more.

The late 19th and early 20th centuries saw sweeping social change and major scientific advances — both of which contributed to a new aesthetic: modernism. Rejecting the rigidity of Victorian artistic conventions, modernists sought a new means of expression. References to the natural world and ornate classical embellishments gave way to the sleek simplicity of the Machine Age. Architect Philip Johnson characterized the hallmarks of modernism as “machine-like simplicity, smoothness or surface [and] avoidance of ornament.”

Early practitioners of modernist design include the De Stijl (“The Style”) group, founded in the Netherlands in 1917, and the Bauhaus School, founded two years later in Germany.

Followers of both groups produced sleek, spare designs — many of which became icons of daily life in the 20th century. The modernists rejected both natural and historical references and relied primarily on industrial materials such as metal, glass, plywood, and, later, plastics. While Bauhaus principals Marcel Breuer and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe created furniture from mass-produced, chrome-plated steel, American visionaries like Charles and Ray Eames worked in materials as novel as molded plywood and fiberglass. Today, Breuer’s Wassily chair, Mies van der Rohe’s Barcelona chair — crafted with his romantic partner, designer Lilly Reich — and the Eames lounge chair are emblems of progressive design and vintage originals are prized cornerstones of collections.

It’s difficult to overstate the influence that modernism continues to wield over designers and architects — and equally difficult to overstate how revolutionary it was when it first appeared a century ago. But because modernist furniture designs are so simple, they can blend in seamlessly with just about any type of décor. Don’t overlook them.

The name “dry bar” can be a bit of a misnomer. After all, the last thing you would want a bar to do is run dry. In this case, the “dry” descriptor in your antique or vintage dry bar doesn’t refer to a lack of drinks. Instead, it serves to differentiate dry-bar furniture from wet-bar installations. The latter is typically a permanent fixture in a home, requiring plumbing to support a built-in sink.

In short, a dry bar is a piece of furniture or tabletop area that you’ve built into your space for mixing cocktails and storing everything needed —bottles, barware and other accessories — for the intoxicating in-home bar you’ve designed.

Some dry bars were built with minimalism in mind. Those crafted by designers associated with mid-century modernism or Scandinvanian modern, for example, likely looked to these as practical furnishings to serve as a cabinet or case piece. But there have been decorative and even outwardly sculptural interpretations by Art Deco furniture makers and those working in the Hollywood Regency style over the years.

No matter what kind of antique, new or vintage dry bar fits your space, these versatile furnishings can definitely elevate your home bar area as well as your hosting. We’ll toast to that!

Find your dry bar as well as all the barware you need on 1stDibs.