French 40s Cabinet
Very Rare Bar Cabinet by Charles Dudouyt, France, 1930s/40s
By Charles Dudouyt
Located in Lewes, East Sussex
An very rare bar cabinet attributed to Charles Dudouyt, France, 1930s/40s. Structurally sound and
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Mid-20th Century French Art Deco Cabinets
Materials
Wood
French 40s Art Deco Mirror-Clad Cabinet w. Glass Appliques
Located in Isle Sur La Sorgue, Vaucluse
Very chic and unusual parisian cupboard/cabinet, clad on the front and sides with clear beveled
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20th Century French Art Deco Cupboards
Superb Cabinet / Chest Attributed to Charles Dudouyt, France, 1930s/40s
By Charles Dudouyt
Located in Lewes, East Sussex
Superb, rare cabinet / chest attributed to Charles Dudouyt, France, 1930s/40s. Structurally sound
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Mid-20th Century French Art Deco Commodes and Chests of Drawers
Materials
Wood
$7,544
H 37.41 in W 33.27 in D 16.34 in
A console by Andre Sornay France 40s.
By Andre Sornay
Located in VILLERS-SUR-MER, FR
finished with a rainbow motif. By André Sornay (1902-2000), France 40s.
Category
Vintage 1940s French Shelves
Materials
Beech
Rare André Sornay French Wardrobes Armoires Art Deco Modernist 40s - F613
By Andre Sornay
Located in Ternay, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Armoire, bookcase from the 50's by the french designer André Sornay. Structure in solid mahogany
Category
Vintage 1940s French Mid-Century Modern Wardrobes and Armoires
Materials
Brass, Copper
$14,958
H 55.91 in W 53.15 in D 15.75 in
rare André Sornay sideboard in Oregon pine and studded 40s art deco modernist
By Andre Sornay
Located in Ternay, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Sideboard of the Lyon designer André Sornay dating from the 40s. Structure in veneered and solid
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Vintage 1940s French Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Materials
Brass
$69,409
H 41.34 in W 78.75 in D 19.69 in
Pair of 1940s modernist solid wood shutter cabinets
Located in Ternay, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Pair of modernist French cabinets from the '40s. Structure in solid and veneered mahogany, handles
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Vintage 1940s French Mid-Century Modern Cabinets
Materials
Wood
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French 40's Enfilade
Located in New York, NY
A French Three Door Enfilade in Pale Sycamore Raised on Short Canted Legs and Decorated with Star
Category
Vintage 1940s French Buffets
A Large french cerused oak sideboard from the 40's
Located in Brussels, BE
A large french multifunctional sideboard from the 40's. ( usefull in diningroom,kitchen ....etc.)
Category
20th Century French Sideboards
Pair Of French 40's Cabinets
By Jacques Adnet
Located in Doylestown, PA
A unique pair of small-scaled French 1940's cabinets in ebonized and cerused oak, with a single
Category
Vintage 1940s French Cabinets
Materials
Oak
Pair of French 40's Cabinets
Located in Stamford, CT
Pair of two door cabinets with two drawer interior.
Category
Vintage 1940s French Cabinets
French 40's Industrial Steel Cabinet
Located in BENSENVILLE, IL
Vintage Industrial steel cabinet with a nice, subtle perforated detailing on the lower doors.
Category
Vintage 1940s French Cabinets
Materials
Steel
French 40's Industrial Steel Cabinet
Located in BENSENVILLE, IL
Vintage Industrial steel cabinet with 2 drawers, 3 pull out shelves and a nice rolled lip detail on
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Vintage 1940s French Cabinets
Materials
Steel
A Fine 40's French Bar Cabinet
Located in Kent, Dover
A French bar cabinet of fine quality in ebonised lemon wood. With a lower lemon wood fitted
Category
20th Century French Cabinets
French 40's Serving Cabinet, Faux Books
Located in Doylestown, PA
A really great French serving cabinet in bleached mahogany with a lift lid and fall front false
Category
Vintage 1940s French Cabinets
Materials
Leather, Mahogany
Carved French 40's armoire
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Carved French 40's armoire. Perfect to hide the flatscreen TV again...
Category
Vintage 1940s French Cabinets
Materials
Oak
French 40's Bar Cabinet by Audoux et Minet
By Frida Minet, Adrien Audoux and Frida Minnet
Located in Doylestown, PA
A unique bar cabinet by Adrien Audoux and Frida Minet, circa 1940, in cerused oak with nautical
Category
Vintage 1940s French Modern Dry Bars
Materials
Oak, Rope, Mirror
French 40's Armoire
Located in Doylestown, PA
An interesting 2-door armoire in bleached cherrywood with a checkerboard pattern to the veneer, nice clean interior, and retaining its original locks and keys.
Category
Vintage 1940s French Wardrobes and Armoires
French 40's Slantfront Desk
Located in Stamford, CT
Oak parquetry slantfront desk on short cabriole feet. Two doors opening to shelves. Slantfront opening to drawers and pigeonhole and red leather surface.
Category
20th Century French Desks
40's Cabinet by French Designer Andre Sornay Mahogany and Copper Art Deco
By Andre Sornay
Located in Ternay, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
1940s cabinet by French designer André Sornay. The structure is made of solid mahogany and veneered
Category
Vintage 1940s French Art Deco Cabinets
Materials
Brass, Copper
H 53.94 in W 29.53 in D 13 in
French 40's Ceruse Oak Buffet
Located in BENSENVILLE, IL
French 40's ceruse oak buffet in the style of Leon and Maurice Jallot with brass trim and "lacque
Category
Vintage 1940s French Buffets
French 40's Ceruse Oak Server
Located in BENSENVILLE, IL
French 40's ceruse oak server in the style of Leon and Maurice Jallot with brass trim and "lacque
Category
Vintage 1940s French Sideboards
Materials
Brass
Elegant French 40's Sycamore Buffet
Located in Pasadena, CA
This buffet is a very unique piece. It is a mix of the end of the 40's: beautiful choice of wood
Category
Vintage 1950s French Buffets
Materials
Bronze
French 40's Cerused-Oak Secretaire
Located in Doylestown, PA
A large French drop-front desk in cerused oak, with two drawers below the open shelf at top, two
Category
Vintage 1940s French Secretaires
Materials
Oak
French 40's Cerused Oak Desk
Located in Doylestown, PA
A French 1940’s cerused oak kneehole desk with double pedestal base, 9 drawers with patinated brass
Category
Vintage 1940s French Desks
Materials
Brass
French 40's Directoire Inspired Desk
Located in Doylestown, PA
A "Directoire" inspired 1940’s - 50’s French bureau plat, in beechwood with two drawers, a pull out
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Vintage 1940s French Desks
Materials
Brass
French 40's Rosewood Marquetry Sideboard
Located in Danville, CA
Fantastic large scale French Deco Sideboard. Top, sides and doors are all done in patterned
Category
Vintage 1940s French Sideboards
Materials
Bronze
Art Deco Cabinet Attributed to André Sornay in Oregon Pine from the 40s French
By Andre Sornay
Located in Ternay, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Imposing Art Deco cabinet from the 50's attributed to the French designer André Sornay. Structure
Category
Vintage 1950s French Art Deco Cabinets
Materials
Brass
H 70.87 in W 57.09 in D 19.69 in
Exceptional French 40's Ebonized Parchment Sideboard
Located in New York, NY
Exceptional French 40's Ebonized and Brass-Inlaid Parchment Sideboard
Category
20th Century French Sideboards
French 40's Ladies Mirrored Dressing Table
Located in BENSENVILLE, IL
Very special French 40's ladies beveled mirrored two-drawer dressing table with bronze base and
Category
Vintage 1940s French Dressers
Materials
Bronze
French 40's Transitional Commode
Located in North Miami, FL
A French marble top commode in the louis lxvi transitional style. Finish has a distressed pickling
Category
Vintage 1940s French Commodes and Chests of Drawers
Materials
Metal
French 40's Limed Oak 5 Drawer Desk
Located in Stamford, CT
French 40's limed oak baroque style desk. Five drawers, turned stretchers, baluster-turned uprights.
Category
20th Century French Desks
French 40's Extravagant Buffet w/ Marble Top
Located in BENSENVILLE, IL
French 40's buffet made from a mix of French hardwoods including walnut, mahogany and flame
Category
Vintage 1940s French Buffets
Materials
Mahogany
French 40's Lacquered High Chest
Located in New York, NY
French 40's lacquered high chest, supported on criss-crossed legs with hand-stiched leather.
Category
Vintage 1940s French Commodes and Chests of Drawers
Fine French '40s Maple Roll Top Secretary
Located in Austin, TX
Vintage French secretary in solid maple. Roll top with drawer system opens to a white leather
Category
Vintage 1940s French Secretaires
Materials
Maple, Leather
40's sideboard
Located in Buchanan, NY
Rosewood sideboard with brass keys
Category
Vintage 1940s French Sideboards
Materials
Rosewood
French 40's sideboard in the Andre Arbus Manner
Located in New York, NY
French 40's sideboard in the Andre Arbus Manner
Category
20th Century French Sideboards
Petite French 40's Polished Brass & Ebonized Mahogany Shelves
Located in BENSENVILLE, IL
Outstanding petite French 40's polished brass and ebonized mahogany shelves. This is a real
Category
Vintage 1940s French Shelves
Materials
Brass
French '40s Mirrored Chest of Drawers
Located in Austin, TX
French vintage 1940s chest of drawers in mirrored and etched glass. Each drawer and side is
Category
Vintage 1940s French Commodes and Chests of Drawers
Materials
Brass
French 40's Cerused Oak Buffet w/ Black Glass Top
Located in BENSENVILLE, IL
Modern French 1940's cerused oak 3 door buffet with a black glass top, black glass accents and a
Category
Vintage 1940s French Buffets
Materials
Oak, Glass
Mirrored 1920-40s Chest of Drawers, France
Located in Copenhagen K, DK
Lovely vintage Venetian mirrored chest of drawers from around 1920-40s France.
The chest of
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Antique Early 19th Century French Commodes and Chests of Drawers
Materials
Glass, Mirror, Wood
Gaston Poisson Signed 40s French Wood Sideboard, Enfilada, Credenza, Brutalista
By Gaston Poisson
Located in Valladolid, ES
marquetry top.
Author Gastón Poisson imoryante and recognized French author of the years 40 -50.
High
Category
Vintage 1940s French Brutalist Credenzas
Materials
Brass
H 40.56 in W 81.89 in D 20.87 in
French chest of drawers from the 40´s
Located in Girona, Girona
Beautifull chest of drawers, maple veneer, french polish, 3 drawers, nickel plated brass round
Category
Vintage 1940s French Commodes and Chests of Drawers
Materials
Brass
French Desk 40's Art Deco in Style of André Arbus, G086
By André Arbus
Located in Ternay, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Imposing art deco desk from the 50's in the taste of André Arbus's work. Structure in solid oak and
Category
Vintage 1940s French Art Deco Desks
Materials
Brass
French modernist desk in solid oak ceruse from the 40's style Jacques adnet
Located in Ternay, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Imposing modernist desk of the 50s in the taste of the work of Jean Michel Frank. Structure in solid oak and veneer, ceruse work on the whole desk. It is composed of three lateral dr...
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Vintage 1940s French Post-Modern Desks
Materials
Oak
H 29.93 in W 55.12 in D 33.47 in
Modernist Wardrobe from the 30's /40's Solid Ceruse Wood Jean Michel Franck E454
By (after) Jean Michel Frank
Located in Ternay, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Imposing modernist wardrobe from the French 30's / 40's in the style of Jean Michel Franck's work
Category
Vintage 1930s French Post-Modern Cupboards
Materials
Metal
H 23.63 in W 64.97 in L 23.63 in
Pair of French 40's lacquered side tables / cabinets
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Pair of French 40's lacquered side tables / cabinets
Category
20th Century French Side Tables
Materials
Wood
Antique Cabinet
Located in Dallas, TX
French 2-Door 40's Cabinet with Faux Graining and Stone Top.
Category
Vintage 1940s French Cabinets
Materials
Stone
40's Deco Two-Door Cerused Limed Oak Sideboard with Fish Handles
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Sideboard is attributed to Jansen and has two working locks for each of the front doors with matching keys. Doors open to a single, full-length interior shelf for storage.
Category
20th Century French Sideboards
Materials
Brass
Unique Large 40's Pierre Pouradier Duteil Desk in Blackened Wood Modernist, 1940
Located in Ternay, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Large modernist two-seater desk from the 1940s by Grenoble architect Pierre Pouradier Duteil. Structure in solid oak wood stained in black and two burr-wood desk legs in lemon tree. ...
Category
Vintage 1940s French Mid-Century Modern Desks
Materials
Wood, Oak
H 28.35 in W 37.41 in D 98.43 in
Pair of Chests of Drawers in Cherry Wood 40's Style Jean Michel Franck E249
By (after) Jean Michel Frank
Located in Ternay, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Pair of french commodes from the 40's. Handcrafted in the style of Jean Michel Franck. Chests of
Category
Vintage 1940s French Mid-Century Modern Commodes and Chests of Drawers
Materials
Oak
H 27.56 in W 31.11 in L 27.56 in
French Cerused Oak Buffet
Located in Doylestown, PA
A chic and nicely proportioned French 40's 2-door buffet cabinet in cerused oak with a circular
Category
Vintage 1940s French Buffets
Materials
Oak
Cabinet / Chest Attributed to Charles Dudouyt, France, 1930s/40s
By Charles Dudouyt
Located in Lewes, East Sussex
Superb cabinet / dresser / chest attributed to Charles Dudouyt, France, 1930s/40s. Structurally
Category
Mid-20th Century French Art Deco Cabinets
Materials
Wood
Superb Cabinet / Chest Attributed to Charles Dudouyt, France, 1930s/40s
By Charles Dudouyt
Located in Lewes, East Sussex
Superb cabinet / chest attributed to Charles Dudouyt, France, 1930s/40s. Structurally sound and
Category
Mid-20th Century French Art Deco Cabinets
Materials
Wood
H 33.86 in W 33.08 in D 17.33 in
Very Rare Charles Dudouyt Tall Boy Chest / Cabinet, France, 1930s/40s
By Charles Dudouyt
Located in Lewes, East Sussex
An incredibly rare tall chest of drawers by Charles Dudouyt, France, 1930s/40s. Structurally sound
Category
Mid-20th Century French Art Deco Cabinets
Materials
Wood
H 40.56 in W 23.63 in D 17.33 in
French Art Déco Wardrobe Early 40s
Located in bari, IT
French production from the 1940s.
Category
Vintage 1940s French Art Deco Wardrobes and Armoires
Materials
Walnut
Mirrored 1920s-40s Chest of Drawers, France
Located in Copenhagen K, DK
Old French chest of drawers from around the 1920s-40s, in Venetian style, with mirrored glass on
Category
Early 20th Century French Commodes and Chests of Drawers
Materials
Glass, Mirror, Wood
French 1930/40's Art Deco Sideboard in Black Lacquer with Mirrored Compartments
Located in Ulm, DE
Side, mirrored compartments behind transparent glass doors
Original Art Deco, France 1930/40s
Category
Early 20th Century French Art Deco Sideboards
Materials
Metal
H 41.74 in W 77.96 in D 17.72 in
Pair of Oak & Marble Nightstands, France, 1930-40's
Located in Austin, TX
Art Deco night stand pair in cerused oak with blush pink veined marble tops. France, 1930-40's
Category
Vintage 1930s French Art Deco Side Tables
Materials
Marble
French 40's Lacquered Cabinet / Sideboard
Located in Miami, FL
Superb French 40's cabinet, sideboard, large dresser, chest, lacquered in a rich high gloss red
Category
Vintage 1940s French Sideboards
French 40's Arrow Cabinet
Located in Miami, FL
Whimsical french 40's cabinet/etagere, wonderful form, pagoda top with arrow motifs.
For
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Vintage 1940s French Shelves
Materials
Brass
Superb Lacquered French Jansen Style Cabinet
Located in Miami, FL
Superb French 40's cabinet/dresser, bombee/bow front, interesting detail on each side of cabinet
Category
Vintage 1940s French Commodes and Chests of Drawers
Elegant 40's French Sideboard / Cabinet
Located in Miami, FL
Elegant French 40's sidebaord, with classical slightly curved form, clean lines, scroll top details
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Vintage 1940s French Sideboards
Elegant French 40's Sideboard / Cabinet / Buffet
Located in Miami, FL
Elegant #French #40's credenza. 2 front doors, chic detail at top, slick curvacious legs. Just in
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Vintage 1940s French Sideboards
Materials
Wood
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French 40s Cabinet For Sale on 1stDibs
With a vast inventory of beautiful furniture at 1stDibs, we’ve got just the French 40s cabinet you’re looking for. A French 40s cabinet — often made from wood, metal and oak — can elevate any home. Your living room may not be complete without a French 40s cabinet — find older editions for sale from the 19th Century and newer versions made as recently as the 20th Century. A French 40s cabinet is a generally popular piece of furniture, but those created in Art Deco, Louis XVI and Mid-Century Modern styles are sought with frequency.
How Much is a French 40s Cabinet?
A French 40s cabinet can differ in price owing to various characteristics — the average selling price 1stDibs is $6,500, while the lowest priced sells for $1,790 and the highest can go for as much as $28,500.
Finding the Right Case Pieces And Storage Cabinets for You
Of all the vintage storage cabinets and antique case pieces that have become popular in modern interiors over the years, dressers, credenzas and cabinets have long been home staples, perfect for routine storage or protection of personal items.
In the mid-19th century, cabinetmakers would mimic styles originating in the Louis XIV, Louis XV and Louis XVI eras for their dressers, bookshelves and other structures, and, later, simpler, streamlined wood designs allowed these “case pieces” or “case goods” — any furnishing that is unupholstered and has some semblance of a storage component — to blend into the background of any interior.
Mid-century modern furniture enthusiasts will cite the tall modular wall units crafted in teak and other sought-after woods of the era by the likes of George Nelson, Poul Cadovius and Finn Juhl. For these highly customizable furnishings, designers of the day delivered an alternative to big, heavy bookcases by considering the use of space — and, in particular, walls — in new and innovative ways. Mid-century modern credenzas, which, long and low, evolved from tables that were built as early as the 14th century in Italy, typically have no legs or very short legs and have grown in popularity as an alluring storage option over time.
Although the name immediately invokes images of clothing, dressers were initially created in Europe for a much different purpose. This furnishing was initially a flat-surfaced, low-profile side table equipped with a few drawers — a common fixture used to dress and prepare meats in English kitchens throughout the Tudor period. The drawers served as perfect utensil storage. It wasn’t until the design made its way to North America that it became enlarged and equipped with enough space to hold clothing and cosmetics. The very history of case pieces is a testament to their versatility and well-earned place in any room.
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A contemporary case piece with open shelving and painted wood details can prove functional as a storage unit as easily as it can a room divider. Alternatively, apothecary cabinets are charming case goods similar in size to early dressers or commodes but with uniquely sized shelving and (often numerous) drawers.
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