John & Sylvia Reid Cupboards

A fantastic antique military campaign chest in teak and brass. This was made in England, it dates from around the 1840-1860 period. It is of amazing quality and is a very useful s...

20th century Catalan Spanish carved walnut chest of drawers, highboy or console Country Provincial Chiffoniere was fashioned from solid ...

Elegant Chinoiserie Chest of drawers with pearl inlay. Around 1900 this Chinoiserie style and furniture from the Orient were highly in Fashion in Paris... So French furniture makers...

A lovely antique bow fronted chest of drawers in the Georgian style. This was made in England, it dates from around the 1950s. This is very well made and is a very useful size. Th...

20th century Catalan Spanish carved walnut chest of drawers, highboy or console Country Provincial Chiffoniere was fashioned from solid walnut and features two drawers and two doors ...

20th century Catalan Spanish carved walnut chest of drawers, highboy or console Country Provincial Chiffoniere was fashioned from solid walnut and features one drawer with door carve...

Art Deco chest of drawers A French Art Deco Chest of drawers produced in the 1930s in walnut having four long shaped front drawers and standing on a shaped base. The chest is in ver...

We are delighted to offer for sale this lovely original Howard & Son’s Berners street late Victorian light mahogany linen press A very well made and collectable piece, produced by...

Chest of drawers model CS49 with four frontal drawers and four doors revealing inner shelves with structure in black lacquered wood and top upholstered with black skai or faux leather. Designed by Vico Magistretti and produced by Poggi in 1970s Ludovico Magistretti was born in Milan on 6 October 1920. He went to Parini High School and in autumn 1939 enrolled in the Faculty of Architecture at the Royal Polytechnic in Milan. After 8 September 1943, to avoid being deported to Germany, he left Italy during his military service and moved to Switzerland, where he took some academic courses at the Champ Universitaire Italien in Lausanne, taught at the local university. During his stay in the Swiss city he met Ernesto Nathan Rogers, the founder of the BBPR firm who had taken refuge in Switzerland after racist laws were passed in Italy. This was a key encounter in Magistretti’s intellectual and professional development, since the architect from Trieste turned out to be his maestro. He returned to Milan in 1945, where he graduated in Architecture at the Polytechnic on 2 August. He then immediately began his career working with the architect Paolo Chessa at the firm owned and run by his father, who died prematurely that same year. Here, in his father’s small firm, he spent his entire career in partnership with Franco Montella. During reconstruction operations in Milan from 1949-59, Magistretti designed and constructed about 14 projects for INA-Casa in conjunction with other architects. He was involved with Mario Tedeschi in the joint project for the QT8 neighbourhood, designing houses for veterans from the African campaign and also Santa Maria Nascente Church. In 1946 he participated in the R.I.M.A. exhibition (Italian Assembly for Furniture Exhibitions), held at the Palazzo dell’Arte, designing some small almost self-made pieces of furniture and then, in 1947 and 1948, he took part together with Castiglioni, Zanuso, Gardella, Albini and others in the exhibitions organized by Fede Cheti, a furniture fabric maker, held at her own workshop. The young architect was involved in plenty of activities and came up with lots of new ideas and proposals in the 1950s. Over the following years he also designed a number of other important projects, including the Towers in piazzale Aquileia (1961-64), Bassetti House in Azzate (1960-62), Cassina House in Carimate (1964-65), and the house in via Conservatorio in Milan (1963-66). In 1956 he was one of the founding members of the ADI, Industrial Design Association, and during the same year he was a member of the panel of judges for the Golden Compass Award for the first time. His work as an architect was almost totally focused on the issue of housing and living from the 1960s onwards, as he developed his own extremely expressive idiom, which, even though it was heavily criticised at times, made a real impression on the architectural scene in Lombardy during that period, making him one of its leading figures. This is the context in which he took part in the CIAM Congress (International Modern Architecture Congress) held in Otterlo in the Netherlands in 1959, during which the Italians presented Velasca Tower designed by the BBPR, the Olivetti canteen designed by Ignazio Gardella, Arosio house designed by Vico Magistretti (1956-59), and the houses in Matera designed by Giancarlo De Carli...

19th Catalan Spanish Baroque carved walnut Tuscan two drawers chest of drawers. From the north of Spain, built in solid walnut, the rectangular top with a molded edge on a box that ...

Get a piece of furniture history with this elegant rosewood chest of drawers from the 1960s. The rosewood gives the commode a warm and natural glow, while at the same time emphasizin...

This industrial cupboard is early 20th century from the Alsace region of France. We know this because of the little lead figure nailed to the front which is typical of the region. ...