1940-1950 Oak Buffet

Rare small buffet with two doors in solid pine, without any addition of metal parts, except the lock. Handmade by Franz Xaver Sproll and stamped on...

Buffet in solid wood and panels in wood veneer. Three molded doors with highlights in gilded bronze. Recessed base with four heels of angles in gilded bronze. Top partially covered w...

Lovely 1940s cabinet in sycamore with two pull tabs. The doors are adorned with two panels in carved wood. Original top in marble. Interior and shelves ...

Large sideboard with six doors and four drawers, in veneered varnished burr elm, supported by a structure of nickel plated metal square tube. It is veneered and varnishes on all si...

Interesting Art Deco period buffet with four doors and a window with two sliding windows. It is made of blond mahogany entirely clad with aluminum sheets. Pull handles in stained wood.

18th century LXV sideboard in solid walnut, with beautiful molding and fine fittings. Two doors and two drawers. Original lock.

"French Art Deco Elegance: 1940s Oak Credenza with Marble Top" Introducing a captivating French oak credenza from the 1940s that embodies the essence of Art Deco Brutalism. This rem...

This French Brutalist Art Deco buffet / cabinet / vitrine in solid oak was created in the 1940s by Gaston Poisson. It is in the town of Dunkirk, Normandy, France, that we had the c...

A fine French Mid-Century cerused oak sideboard with black diamond pattern inlays on the 2 doors.

French oak buffet, overall pleasant faded oak color and patina, single long drawer above double doors, the sides and doors have inset panels; interio...

Oak buffet with 2 Doors and 3 Drawers by René Gabriel, 1940s René Gabriel (1899 - 1950) is a precursor of French industrial design. He was one of the first to create, as early as the 1930s, economical mass-produced furniture combining aestheticism, robustness and sobriety, a source of inspiration for a whole generation of future designers. A student at the Germain Pilon School and then at the National School of Decorative Arts, René Gabriel began as a domino maker by designing and producing his own wallpapers, and then made his mark as a decorative artist in most of the salons and international exhibitions of the inter-war period. In 1927, he began his research into the creation of mass-produced furniture and proposed a piece of furniture composed of juxtaposable and superposable elements. He studied an economical version that he presented in 1934 at the Salon des arts ménagers under the name of RG elements. Another major turning point came in 1944, when the Ministry of Reconstruction and Urban Planning commissioned him to create emergency furniture. A fervent advocate of furniture for all, René Gabriel designed numerous models for disaster victims by establishing close ties with industry. He also collaborated with Auguste Perret...

An elongated French buffet with more than two doors is known as an enfilade. This bleached four-door enfilade (from circa 1940s) has been hand-carved in the style of Louis XIV. All f...