Rosewood Sideboard from Palazzi dell'Arte Cantù, 1950s

Highboard swedish style 50's in teak. Lower part has 3 hinged doors, above 2 compartments one with flap closure and one with shutter.

Beautiful mid-century Italian sideboard with walnut body and walnut briar front. Note how many details are derived from the design of Gio Ponti or the 900 Milanese. The elegant goat'...

Italian Paolo Buffa credenza of the 1940s, in massive walnut and veneer rosewood chessboard. Shaped top mirror, black lacquered glass top, four doors with internal shelf, original gi...

A very rare and sophisticated sideboard by Vittorio Dassi stamped Permanente Mobili Cantu Italy from the 1950s consisting of four suspended cabinets, three of which have locking doors, the fourth has drawers with raised hexagonal pulls. Each cabinet has a chamfered top of a beautifully grained Italian walnut shaped in a distinctive diamond cut. This contrasts with more tightly grained fronts and side panels of the cabinets Above each cabinet is set a hexagonal glass shelf resting inset on brass supports detailed in a flat black lacquer and polished brass attached to the ends of tapering flat pillars of Italian walnut. The interiors of three of the four cabinets are finished in an aged off-white glazed birch with adjustable glass shelving. There are ten polished threaded bronze discs that are held in cast bronze hexagonal housings that allow the sideboard to adjust to uneven or stone flooring. The bronze bases are also accented in flat black lacquer. La Permanente Mobili Cantu was considered one of Italy's top cabinet makers and the cabinet work in this sideboard attests to how beautifully they executed their pieces. The metric measurements...