Hexa Saffron Yellow Bookcase by Taeke Halma
Located in Geneve, CH
Hexa Saffron Yellow Bookcase by Taeke Halma Dimensions: D 37 x W 198 x H 112 cm. Materials: Polyethylene. Weight: 28 kg. Available in different color options. Prices may vary. This ...
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Hexa Jet Black Bookcase by Taeke Halma
Located in Geneve, CH
Hexa Jet Black Bookcase by Taeke Halma Dimensions: D 37 x W 198 x H 112 cm. Materials: Polyethylene. Weight: 28 kg. Available in different color options. Prices may vary. This produ...
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Hexa Sweet Fuchsia Bookcase by Taeke Halma
Located in Geneve, CH
Hexa Sweet Fuchsia Bookcase by Taeke Halma Dimensions: D 37 x W 198 x H 112 cm. Materials: Polyethylene. Weight: 28 kg. Available in different color options. Prices may vary. This p...
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Hexa Elephant Grey Bookcase by Taeke Halma
Located in Geneve, CH
Hexa Elephant Grey Bookcase by Taeke Halma Dimensions: D 37 x W 198 x H 112 cm. Materials: Polyethylene. Weight: 28 kg. Available in different color options. Prices may vary. This p...
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Hexa Malva Green Bookcase by Taeke Halma
Located in Geneve, CH
Hexa Malva Green Bookcase by Taeke Halma Dimensions: D 37 x W 198 x H 112 cm. Materials: Polyethylene. Weight: 28 kg. Available in different color options. Prices may vary. This pro...
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Hexa Dove Grey Bookcase by Taeke Halma
Located in Geneve, CH
Hexa Dove Grey Bookcase by Taeke Halma Dimensions: D 37 x W 198 x H 112 cm. Materials: Polyethylene. Weight: 28 kg. Available in different color options. Prices may vary. This produ...
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Hexa Milky White Bookcase by Taeke Halma
Located in Geneve, CH
Hexa Milky White Bookcase by Taeke Halma Dimensions: D 37 x W 198 x H 112 cm. Materials: Polyethylene. Weight: 28 kg. Available in different color options. Prices may vary. This pro...
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Hexa Chocolate Brown Bookcase by Taeke Halma
Located in Geneve, CH
Hexa Chocolate Brown Bookcase by Taeke Halma Dimensions: D 37 x W 198 x H 112 cm. Materials: Polyethylene. Weight: 28 kg. Available in different color options. Prices may vary. This...
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Hexa Argil Grey Bookcase by Taeke Halma
Located in Geneve, CH
Hexa Argil Grey Bookcase by Taeke Halma Dimensions: D 37 x W 198 x H 112 cm. Materials: Polyethylene. Weight: 28 kg. Available in different color options. Prices may vary. This prod...
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Hexa Lime Green Bookcase by Taeke Halma
Located in Geneve, CH
Hexa Lime Green Bookcase by Taeke Halma Dimensions: D 37 x W 198 x H 112 cm. Materials: Polyethylene. Weight: 28 kg. Available in different color options. Prices may vary. This prod...
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Booky Mini Argil Grey Bookcase by Giò Colonna Romano
Located in Geneve, CH
Booky Mini Argil Grey Bookcase by Giò Colonna Romano Dimensions: D 40 x W 70 x H 70 cm. Materials: Polyethylene. Weight: 21 kg. Available in different color options. Prices may vary...
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$2,591 / item
H 27.56 in W 27.56 in D 15.75 in
Booky Mini Saffron Yellow Bookcase by Giò Colonna Romano
Located in Geneve, CH
Booky Mini Saffron Yellow Bookcase by Giò Colonna Romano Dimensions: D 40 x W 70 x H 70 cm. Materials: Polyethylene. Weight: 21 kg. Available in different color options. Prices may ...
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Booky Mini Flame Red Bookcase by Giò Colonna Romano
Located in Geneve, CH
Booky Mini Flame Red Bookcase by Giò Colonna Romano Dimensions: D 40 x W 70 x H 70 cm. Materials: Polyethylene. Weight: 21 kg. Available in different color options. Prices may vary....
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$9,425 / item
H 90.56 in W 72.45 in D 15.75 in
MyBook 4x5 Pumpkin Orange Bookcase by Giò Colonna Romano
Located in Geneve, CH
MyBook 4x5 Pumpkin Orange Bookcase by Giò Colonna Romano Dimensions: D 40 x W 184 x H 230 cm. Materials: Polyethylene. Weight: 80 kg. Available in different color options. Prices ma...
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Booky 5 Pumpkin Orange Bookcase by Giò Colonna Romano
Located in Geneve, CH
Booky 5 Pumpkin Orange Bookcase by Giò Colonna Romano Dimensions: D 40 x W 230 x H 70 cm. Materials: Polyethylene. Weight: 50 kg. Available in different color options. Prices may va...
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$4,300 / item
H 54.34 in W 54.34 in D 15.75 in
MyBook 3x3 Pumpkin Orange Bookcase by Giò Colonna Romano
Located in Geneve, CH
MyBook 3x3 Pumpkin Orange Bookcase by Giò Colonna Romano Dimensions: D 40 x W 138 x H 138 cm. Materials: Polyethylene. Weight: 36 kg. Available in different color options. Prices ma...
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Booky 4 Lime Green Bookcase by Giò Colonna Romano
Located in Geneve, CH
Booky 4 Lime Green Bookcase by Giò Colonna Romano Dimensions: D 40 x W 184 x H 70 cm. Materials: Polyethylene. Weight: 40 kg. Available in different color options. Prices may vary. ...
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Booky 4 Saffron Yellow Bookcase by Giò Colonna Romano
Located in Geneve, CH
Booky 4 Saffron Yellow Bookcase by Giò Colonna Romano Dimensions: D 40 x W 184 x H 70 cm. Materials: Polyethylene. Weight: 40 kg. Available in different color options. Prices may va...
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Booky 4 Jet Black Bookcase by Giò Colonna Romano
Located in Geneve, CH
Booky 4 Jet Black Bookcase by Giò Colonna Romano Dimensions: D 40 x W 184 x H 70 cm. Materials: Polyethylene. Weight: 40 kg. Available in different color options. Prices may vary. T...
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Booky 4 Flame Red Bookcase by Giò Colonna Romano
Located in Geneve, CH
Booky 4 Flame Red Bookcase by Giò Colonna Romano Dimensions: D 40 x W 184 x H 70 cm. Materials: Polyethylene. Weight: 40 kg. Available in different color options. Prices may vary. T...
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Booky 4 Pumpkin Orange Bookcase by Giò Colonna Romano
Located in Geneve, CH
Booky 4 Pumpkin Orange Bookcase by Giò Colonna Romano Dimensions: D 40 x W 184 x H 70 cm. Materials: Polyethylene. Weight: 40 kg. Available in different color options. Prices may va...
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Booky 4 Milky White Bookcase by Giò Colonna Romano
Located in Geneve, CH
Booky 4 Milky White Bookcase by Giò Colonna Romano Dimensions: D 40 x W 184 x H 70 cm. Materials: Polyethylene. Weight: 40 kg. Available in different color options. Prices may vary....
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Booky 4 Powder Blue Bookcase by Giò Colonna Romano
Located in Geneve, CH
Booky 4 Powder Blue Bookcase by Giò Colonna Romano Dimensions: D 40 x W 184 x H 70 cm. Materials: Polyethylene. Weight: 40 kg. Available in different color options. Prices may vary....
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Booky 4 Sweet Fuchsia Bookcase by Giò Colonna Romano
Located in Geneve, CH
Booky 4 Sweet Fuchsia Bookcase by Giò Colonna Romano Dimensions: D 40 x W 184 x H 70 cm. Materials: Polyethylene. Weight: 40 kg. Available in different color options. Prices may var...
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Booky 4 Chocolate Brown Bookcase by Giò Colonna Romano
Located in Geneve, CH
Booky 4 Chocolate Brown Bookcase by Giò Colonna Romano Dimensions: D 40 x W 184 x H 70 cm. Materials: Polyethylene. Weight: 40 kg. Available in different color options. Prices may v...
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Booky 4 Argil Grey Bookcase by Giò Colonna Romano
Located in Geneve, CH
Booky 4 Argil Grey Bookcase by Giò Colonna Romano Dimensions: D 40 x W 184 x H 70 cm. Materials: Polyethylene. Weight: 40 kg. Available in different color options. Prices may vary. ...
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Booky 4 Dove Grey Bookcase by Giò Colonna Romano
Located in Geneve, CH
Booky 4 Dove Grey Bookcase by Giò Colonna Romano Dimensions: D 40 x W 184 x H 70 cm. Materials: Polyethylene. Weight: 40 kg. Available in different color options. Prices may vary. T...
Other
Booky 4 Elephant Grey Bookcase by Giò Colonna Romano
Located in Geneve, CH
Booky 4 Elephant Grey Bookcase by Giò Colonna Romano Dimensions: D 40 x W 184 x H 70 cm. Materials: Polyethylene. Weight: 40 kg. Available in different color options. Prices may var...
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Booky 3 Pumpkin Orange Bookcase by Giò Colonna Romano
Located in Geneve, CH
Booky 3 Pumpkin Orange Bookcase by Giò Colonna Romano Dimensions: D 40 x W 138 x H 70 cm. Materials: Polyethylene. Weight: 30 kg. Available in different color options. Prices may va...
Other
$2,591 / item
H 27.56 in W 27.56 in D 15.75 in
Booky Mini Pumpkin Orange Bookcase by Giò Colonna Romano
Located in Geneve, CH
Booky Mini Pumpkin Orange Bookcase by Giò Colonna Romano Dimensions: D 40 x W 70 x H 70 cm. Materials: Polyethylene. Weight: 21 kg. Available in different color options. Prices may ...
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Booky Mini Milky White Bookcase by Giò Colonna Romano
Located in Geneve, CH
Booky Mini Milky White Bookcase by Giò Colonna Romano Dimensions: D 40 x W 70 x H 70 cm. Materials: Polyethylene. Weight: 21 kg. Available in different color options. Prices may var...
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Booky Mini Lime Green Bookcase by Giò Colonna Romano
Located in Geneve, CH
Booky Mini Lime Green Bookcase by Giò Colonna Romano Dimensions: D 40 x W 70 x H 70 cm. Materials: Polyethylene. Weight: 21 kg. Available in different color options. Prices may vary...
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Cosette 110 Shelf by GIROTTI ENRICO
Located in Geneve, CH
Cosette 110 Shelf by GIROTTI ENRICO Dimensions: D 40 x H 110 cm Materials: Galvanic Structure, Metal. Weight: 14 Kg. Enrico Girotti is an industrial designer who has found in the w...
Metal
$5,400
H 64.97 in W 63 in D 16.54 in
Luigi Saccardo 'Topline' Wall Unit in Vibrant Green and Black Color
By Luigi Saccardo
Located in Waalwijk, NL
Luigi Saccardo, 'Beehive' bookcase from the 'Topline' series, lacquered laminated wood, metal, Italy, circa 1976 Back in the seventies, Topline was a newly introduced collection by ...
Metal
Join Bookshelves by DAaZ
Located in Geneve, CH
Join Bookshelves by DAaZ Dimensions: D 42.7 x W 107.3 x H 180 cm. Materials: Ash wood. DAaZ Furniture honors the spirit of adventure. We embrace the escape of the ordinary and reve...
Wood
Postmodern German Metal Wall Shelf from Radius Design, 1980s
Located in Hamburg, DE
Metal wall shelf from Radius Design. A design with an industrial design language. The materiality and workmanship are particularly eye-catching. Galvanized sheet steel that is folde...
Metal
$2,345
H 78.74 in W 51.18 in D 16.14 in
Postmodern Italian Graffiti Shelf by Rodney Kinsman for Bieffeplast, 1980s
By Rodney Kinsman
Located in Hamburg, DE
Metal shelf from the Italian manufacturer Biefeplast according to a draft from Rodney Kinsman from the 80s. A design classic of the 80s in postmodern formal language. This modular s...
Metal
Free Bookshelves by DAaZ
Located in Geneve, CH
Free Bookshelves by DAaZ Dimensions: D 35 x W 95 x H 170 cm. Materials: Albizzia wood. DAaZ Furniture honors the spirit of adventure. We embrace the escape of the ordinary and reve...
Wood
Tunis Shelves by DAaZ
Located in Geneve, CH
Tunis Shelves by DAaZ Dimensions: D 37 x W 85 x H 170 cm. Materials: Albizzia wood. DAaZ Furniture honors the spirit of adventure. We embrace the escape of the ordinary and revel i...
Wood
Sintesi Extralight Bookcase by VUUN ITALIA
Located in Geneve, CH
Sintesi Extralight Bookcase by VUUN ITALIA Dimensions: D 4 x W 90 x H 190 cm. Materials: Extralight glass. Available in different sizes and finishes. Please contact us. VUUN Itali...
Glass
Free Shelves by DAaZ
Located in Geneve, CH
Free Shelves by DAaZ Dimensions: D 45 x W 80 x H 83 cm. Materials: Albizzia wood. DAaZ Furniture honors the spirit of adventure. We embrace the escape of the ordinary and revel in ...
Wood
Stair Shelf Installation Shelf by Haus Otto
Located in Geneve, CH
Stair Shelf Installation Shelf by Haus Otto Dimensions: D100 x W85 x (95cm/170cm/245cm) Materials: Painted Chipboard Wood Stair Shelf Is a modular shelving system composed of r...
Wood
$54,429 / item
H 68.9 in W 141.74 in D 13.78 in
Marble And Ebony Natura Sculptural Library by Atelier Terrai
Located in Geneve, CH
Marble And Ebony Natura Sculptural Library by Atelier Terrai Dimensions: D 35 x W 360 x H 175 cm. Materials: Marble and ebony. A celebration of the sinuous shapes found in nature, t...
Marble
$15,300
H 69.3 in W 25.6 in D 19.69 in
Italian Postmodern Sculptural Wall Shelf by Ettore Sottsass for Zanotta 1980
By Ettore Sottsass, Zanotta
Located in Byron Bay, NSW
Alfiere étagère by Ettore Sottsass for Zanotta, 1980 This rare Italian postmodern sculptural wall shelf was designed by Ettore Sottsass in 1980 for Zanotta. Known as the Alfiere éta...
Marble, Chrome
Parade 1 Shelf Top Oxide Red by Warm Nordic
Located in Geneve, CH
Parade 1 shelf Top Oxide Red by Warm Nordic Dimensions: D100 x W30 x H19cm Material: Powder coated steel Weight: 4 kg Also available in different colors and dimensions. Elega...
Steel
Parade 1 Shelf Top Warm White by Warm Nordic
Located in Geneve, CH
Parade 1 shelf Top Warm White by Warm Nordic Dimensions: D100 x W30 x H19cm Material: Powder coated steel Weight: 4 kg Also available in different colors and dimensions. Eleg...
Steel
Parade 3 Shelves Green Olive by Warm Nordic
Located in Geneve, CH
Parade 3 shelves Green Olive by Warm Nordic Dimensions: D100 x W30 x H104 cm Material: Powder coated steel Weight: 12 kg Also available in different colours and dimensions. E...
Steel
Set of 2 Parade Shelf Extentions Oxide Red by Warm Nordic
Located in Geneve, CH
Set of 2 Parade Shelf Extentions Oxide Red by Warm Nordic Dimensions: D30 x W2 x H39cm Material: Powder coated steel Weight: 0.7 kg Also available in different colours and dimens...
Steel
Parade 1 Shelf Top Green Olive by Warm Nordic
Located in Geneve, CH
Parade 1 shelf Top Green Olive by Warm Nordic Dimensions: D100 x W30 x H19cm Material: Powder coated steel Weight: 4 kg Also available in different colors and dimensions. Ele...
Steel
Parade 1 Shelf Extention Warm White by Warm Nordic
Located in Geneve, CH
Parade 1 shelf extention warm white by Warm Nordic Dimensions: D 100 x W 30 x H 39cm Material: Powder coated steel Weight: 4 kg Also available in different colours and dimensions...
Steel
Parade 3 Shelves Oxide Red by Warm Nordic
Located in Geneve, CH
Parade 3 shelves Oxide Red by Warm Nordic Dimensions: D100 x W30 x H104 cm Material: Powder coated steel Weight: 12 kg Also available in different colours and dimensions. Ele...
Steel
$176 / set
H 15.36 in W 0.79 in D 11.82 in
Set of 2 Parade Shelf Extentions Green Olive by Warm Nordic
Located in Geneve, CH
Set of 2 Parade shelf extentions green olive by Warm Nordic Dimensions: D 30 x W 2 x H 39cm Material: Powder coated steel Weight: 0.7 kg Also available in different colours and d...
Steel
Parade 1 Shelf Extention Oxide Red by Warm Nordic
Located in Geneve, CH
Parade 1 shelf extention oxide red by Warm Nordic Dimensions: D 100 x W 30 x H 39cm Material: Powder coated steel Weight: 4 kg Also available in different colours and dimensions....
Steel
Parade 1 Shelf Extention Green Olive by Warm Nordic
Located in Geneve, CH
Parade 1 shelf extention green Olive by Warm Nordic Dimensions: D100 x W30 x H39cm Material: Powder coated steel Weight: 4 kg Also available in different colors and dimensions. ...
Steel
Set of 2 Parade Shelf Extentions Warm White by Warm Nordic
Located in Geneve, CH
Set of 2 Parade shelf extentions Warm White by Warm Nordic Dimensions: D30 x W2 x H39cm Material: Powder coated steel Weight: 0.7 kg Also available in different colors and dimens...
Steel
Input Organiser by Anne Holm and Sigrid Smetana
Located in Geneve, CH
Input organiser by Anne Holm and Sigrid Smetana. Materials: oak. Dimensions: D 6.5 x W 66 x H 44 cm. Input is a flexible organiser with eight movable boxes in different dimensio...
Oak
Orbis Shelf in Marble with Reflected Core by Homa
Located in Geneve, CH
Orbis Shelf in Marble with Reflected Core by Homa. Dimensions: W 110 x D 42 x H 105 cm Marble Thickness: 2 cm. Materials: Green Marble and Cream-Honey Onyx, Mirror Polished Stainles...
Onyx, Marble, Stainless Steel
Postmodern design was a short-lived movement that manifested itself chiefly in Italy and the United States in the early 1980s. The characteristics of vintage postmodern furniture and other postmodern objects and decor for the home included loud-patterned, usually plastic surfaces; strange proportions, vibrant colors and weird angles; and a vague-at-best relationship between form and function.
ORIGINS OF POSTMODERN FURNITURE DESIGN
CHARACTERISTICS OF POSTMODERN FURNITURE DESIGN
POSTMODERN FURNITURE DESIGNERS TO KNOW
VINTAGE POSTMODERN FURNITURE ON 1STDIBS
Critics derided postmodern design as a grandstanding bid for attention and nothing of consequence. Decades later, the fact that postmodernism still has the power to provoke thoughts, along with other reactions, proves they were not entirely correct.
Postmodern design began as an architectural critique. Starting in the 1960s, a small cadre of mainly American architects began to argue that modernism, once high-minded and even noble in its goals, had become stale, stagnant and blandly corporate. Later, in Milan, a cohort of creators led by Ettore Sottsass and Alessandro Mendini — a onetime mentor to Sottsass and a key figure in the Italian Radical movement — brought the discussion to bear on design.
Sottsass, an industrial designer, philosopher and provocateur, gathered a core group of young designers into a collective in 1980 they called Memphis. Members of the Memphis Group, which would come to include Martine Bedin, Michael Graves, Marco Zanini, Shiro Kuramata, Michele de Lucchi and Matteo Thun, saw design as a means of communication, and they wanted it to shout. That it did: The first Memphis collection appeared in 1981 in Milan and broke all the modernist taboos, embracing irony, kitsch, wild ornamentation and bad taste.
Memphis works remain icons of postmodernism: the Sottsass Casablanca bookcase, with its leopard-print plastic veneer; de Lucchi’s First chair, which has been described as having the look of an electronics component; Martine Bedin’s Super lamp: a pull-toy puppy on a power-cord leash. Even though it preceded the Memphis Group’s formal launch, Sottsass’s iconic Ultrafragola mirror — in its conspicuously curved plastic shell with radical pops of pink neon — proves striking in any space and embodies many of the collective’s postmodern ideals.
After the initial Memphis show caused an uproar, the postmodern movement within furniture and interior design quickly took off in America. (Memphis fell out of fashion when the Reagan era gave way to cool 1990’s minimalism.) The architect Robert Venturi had by then already begun a series of plywood chairs for Knoll Inc., with beefy, exaggerated silhouettes of traditional styles such as Queen Anne and Chippendale. In 1982, the new firm Swid Powell enlisted a group of top American architects, including Frank Gehry, Richard Meier, Stanley Tigerman and Venturi to create postmodern tableware in silver, ceramic and glass.
On 1stDibs, the vintage postmodern furniture collection includes chairs, coffee tables, sofas, decorative objects, table lamps and more.
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.
In the spirit of positioning your case goods center stage, decluttering can now be design-minded.
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.
Whether you’re seeking a playful sideboard that features colored glass and metal details, an antique Italian hand-carved storage cabinet or a glass-door vitrine to store and show off your collectibles, there are options for you on 1stDibs.