Skip to main content

Dry Bars

14
1,304
to
138
657
575
1,304
1,304
1,304
582
237
57
44
25
10
5
4
4
4
4
4
4
2
2
2
22
97
504
115
852
252
8
1
45
130
203
189
162
35
11
Height
to
Width
to
Depth
to
1,020
616
360
315
177
872
374
265
245
200
29
19
13
12
10
Dry Bars For Sale
Period: 20th Century
Period: 1940s
Willy Rizzo Italian Bar/Drinks cart, Chrome & Smoked Glass, 1970s
Located in London, GB
A super stylish mid century modern drinks cart / drinks bar featuring polished chrome and smoked glass. This bar was produced in the 1970...
Category

Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Dry Bars

Materials

Smoked Glass

Model 93 - Bar cabinet in teak and oak and doors with intarsia by Kurt Øservig
Located in Copenhagen, DK
Model 93 - Bar cabinet in teak and oak and doors with intarsia. The interior is with mirrored glass and the doors have circular veneer inlays. Designed in the 1950s. Kurt Østervig / ...
Category

Mid-20th Century Danish Scandinavian Modern Dry Bars

Materials

Oak, Teak

1960s Federal Style Mahogany Drop-Leaf Rolling Buffet Bar Server Card
Located in Germantown, MD
1960s Federal style genuine mahogany drop-leaf rolling buffet server and bar cart with 3 drawers functioning perfectly, with dovetail joints cons...
Category

Mid-20th Century Federal Dry Bars

Materials

Brass

1930s Thonet D 625/1 Walnut Bar Cabinet, Czechoslovakia
Located in Praha, CZ
- carefully refurbished - some signs of use - Missing key - Dimensions: H: 70 W: 93 D: 39 cm
Category

1930s Czech Art Deco Vintage Dry Bars

Materials

Chrome

Italian Book & Bar Cabinet
Located in London, GB
An Italian freestanding cherrywood bookcase consisting of 5 shelves and a lockable pull door that reveals a barware storage section. At the bottom ...
Category

1960s Italian Vintage Dry Bars

Materials

Brass

An Original Art Deco Cocktail/Drinks Bar Burr Walnut and Satinwood Circa 1930
Located in Forest Row, East Sussex
An Art Deco Cocktail Cabinet by Salamon Hille. Burr walnut and satinwood veneered with hand carved detail. Mirrored lit interior with extensive glass storage, pull out tray and a secret lower drawer. Original brass key handle. The Hille furniture company was founded in the east end of London in 1906 by Salamon Hille, focusing on the reproduction of eighteenth century furniture...
Category

1930s English Art Deco Vintage Dry Bars

Materials

Satinwood, Walnut

Milo Baughman for Thayer Coggin Bar Cabinet or Vanity Storage
Located in Oklahoma City, OK
From the “Less is More” collection for Thayer Coggin by Milo Baughman, is a two piece stacked bar or vanity. Lower piece has double doors and a single shelf. Upper cabinet has a mirr...
Category

1990s American Dry Bars

Materials

Glass, Mirror, Wood, Paint

French Art Deco Period Iron Bar and Stools
Located in Austin, TX
Bar and stools, French, from the Art Deco period. This set is made of hand-hammered forged iron with a custom glass top. The original vinyl upholstery is on the stools and there are ...
Category

1930s French Art Deco Vintage Dry Bars

Materials

Iron

Vintage Modern Space Age Cylindrical Tower Bar
Located in Chicago, IL
Vintage modern space age cylindrical tower bar. Spice up your home with this super cool and futuristic cylindrical tower bar attributed to Pace Collection Design. Constructed of clear rolled plexiglass sheet capped on top and bottom by brushed steel laminate. Fitted with Lucite bottle racks and storage holders for glassware. In the center is a burl grain laminated surface with a demilune drop leaf...
Category

1970s Space Age Vintage Dry Bars

Materials

Plexiglass

Italian 1940's Cerused Oak Cabinet or Dry Bar
Located in New York, NY
A highly unique and rare Italian 1940's custom cerused oak bar cabinet, the upper half with the right hand portion comprised of two steel fram...
Category

1940s Italian Art Deco Vintage Dry Bars

Materials

Glass, Oak

Sten Blomberg, Bar Cabinet, for Firma David Blomberg, Sweden Art Deco/1930s
Located in Stockholm, SE
A rare bar cabinet designed by Sten Blomberg for Firma David Blomberg, Swedish Art Deco / 1930s. Inlays of metal and wood. Beautiful red colored inte...
Category

1930s Swedish Art Deco Vintage Dry Bars

Materials

Metal

Bar Cabinet Attributed to Nani Prina, Made in Italy, 1960 circa
Located in Milan, IT
This amazing bar cabinet - attributed to Nani Prina - is made out of a wooden body and concived to be functional and perfect for everyday use: the closing m...
Category

1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Dry Bars

Materials

Wood

Wall Mounted Wood Dry Bar, Italy, 1960s
Located in Milan, IT
Wall-mounted dry bar. Central unit feature a flap door and mirrored inside with glass shelves. Main piece is surrounded by two vertical wood panels with opaline glass sconces.
Category

1960s Italian Vintage Dry Bars

Materials

Wood

Mid Century Bar Cabinet, Czechoslovakia, 1970´S
Located in Prague 8, CZ
This bar cabinet is made of mahogany wood with iron legs. It is in very good Vintage condition. Cool retro piece. Height: 67 cm Width: 100 cm Depth: 41 cm.  
Category

Late 20th Century Czech Mid-Century Modern Dry Bars

Materials

Iron

Fantastic Vintage Rattan Elephant Bar
Located in Hopewell, NJ
Fabulously whimsical vintage rattan dry bar having the form of two elephants facing in opposite directions. Each elephant is shown from head to shoulders with two front legs on a rec...
Category

1980s Indonesian Vintage Dry Bars

Materials

Rattan, Glass

Hot Air Balloon Gondola Pub Bar Dining Table Rattan Basket Hand Painted Map
Located in Dayton, OH
"Vintage Hot Air balloon pub dining table deisgned by Dennis Deis, painted by Richard Mantia, and inspired by the book Around the World in 80 days, a novel by Jules Verne. This collaboration was born to raise funds for the AIDS fundraiser at the Masonic Temple in Dayton Ohio circa 1980s. The base or gondola was made by Cameron, and frequently used by Dennis during his flights before being retired and used for this installation art. The decorated gondola base supports a hand painted table top showing a colorful birdseye continental map view. At the center is handmade lamp fashioned to look like the burner of a hot air balloon. The round ceiling canopy features a red and gold candy cane exterior and mirrored interior allowing for a unique reflection off of the lantern below. Between the canopy and table surface is a fun rope and pulley design offering added dimension. The table can sit four to five stools comfortable. Dennis Deis Bio: Dennis George John Deis, b 1942 - 2012 was a loving, dedicated, trustworthy, and fun-loving family man and friend. At 70 years old, he had lived a rich, albeit too short life. He was born on May 29th, 1942, in his parents' home in Kettering's Greenmont Village. He started his adventures outside of Greenmont at 18, when he enlisted in the Navy. He served from March 28, 1960 to May 28, 1963. When he returned, he married Joyce Breckler and started working for Ohio Bell as a phone installer. After 27 years, he retired as a PBX installer for AT&T. He started a second career as a hot air balloon pilot and entrepreneur of Rainbow's End balloon flights. He was frequently seen flying over the Dayton area in the rainbow-colored Houser Asphalt balloon. Ballooning took him on adventures in Michigan, Iowa, New Mexico, Arizona, and Europe. He flew over European castles and great scenic views for Buddy Bombard. Over 10,000 Daytonians shared a balloon basket...
Category

1980s Vintage Dry Bars

Materials

Rattan, Rope, Hardwood, Paint

1970s Dry Bar by Jordi Vilanova, Six Doors, Walnut, Lacquer, Brass - Barcelona
Located in Girona, ES
Important dry bar with six doors, stained and French polished walnut veneer. Red lacquer inside with small sliding tray and four drawers. Nickel plated solid brass handles and feet. ...
Category

1970s Spanish Modern Vintage Dry Bars

Materials

Brass

Vintage Italian Geometric Dry Bar by Giovanni Offredi for Saporiti, Italy
Located in Paris, France
This exceptional and very rare Italian dry bar, cocktail cabinet, designed by Giovanni Offredi one of the most discreet but among the most ingenious designers who created for the Italian manufacturer Saporiti. This design comprises a cylinder with a part of the body in black sheathed leather and the other part of the body that represents the door, is in wood forming abstract geometric shapes in wood veneered with bird's eye maple in warm tones, the interior is completed by two circular glass shelves. More than a piece of furniture, this stunning piece is a sculpture, like a TOTEM, it is topped with a turntable that can allow you to put glasses, the time to serve your guests. Make sure this eye-catching dry bar t is as useful as it is stylish and will pair with antique pieces, Art Deco or contemporary interiors. Unfortunately the photos do not do enough justice, do not hesitate to ask for more or a video. Giovanni Offredi confesses about the design: "What worries me most, when I consider a topic, is not so much the evaluation of its epidermal appearance, but its intimate essence," offers. “In the field of furniture, it is unfortunately difficult to find clients willing to carry out too innovative experiments. Furniture is in fact an asset that must last over time without exceeding certain costs. More advanced innovations can be found more easily in the objects sector”. "Italian design, which has always drawn its success from the balance between rationality and fantasy, seems to have lost this harmony. The craving for the new has created confusion. Some are caught up in forced attempts, thinking of finding space in the market and achieving success. The Postmodern, born as an act of controversy against certain rationalist positions, fossilized over time, and then established itself for the desire to renew certain forms, freeing them from their rigidity, has been transforming up to identify with the search for novelty at all costs. However, the Post Modern failed to go beyond the surface, it failed to give content to its forms. Here then we no longer have to deal with a cultural fact, but with a fact of fashion and beyond rationality there is only passion, the ephemeral, the passenger ". "The object must find its reason for utility in beauty; but, only if you can give the external aspect a content and an expressive meaning, the result can be said to be valid. I consider giving shape to an object as an attempt to obtain the image of its deepest reason. And we must not confuse beauty with appearance, since the latter is the superficial part of the form. Beauty will be greater the more it emerges of its substance. In essence, I want to make those objects that I try to create live out of their own life”. "Among the thousands of possible forms, one is chosen, the most significant of the particular cultural moment that is in us, and which is dependent on the intensity and richness of the knowledge that presses us to come to life; therefore design will never be fashionable, since this is only the ephemeral passion of its time "."The object must find its reason for utility in beauty; but, only if you can give the external aspect a content and an expressive meaning, the result can be said to be valid. I consider giving shape to an object as an attempt to obtain the image of its deepest reason. And we must not confuse beauty with appearance, since the latter is the superficial part of the form. Beauty will be greater the more it emerges of its substance. In essence, I want to make those objects that I try to create live out of their own life”. "Among the thousands of possible forms, one is chosen, the most significant of the particular cultural moment that is in us, and which is dependent on the intensity and richness of the knowledge that presses us to come to life; therefore design will never be fashionable, since this is only the ephemeral passion of its time ". Over the years, the Milanese designer Giovanni Offredi (1927-2007) has ranged from the design of furniture to lamps, from kitchens to telephones, from furnishing accessories to televisions. Since 1950, Saporiti Italia produces some of the most sophisticated and advanced pieces of furniture of the history of Italian design. Between 1970-1980 Giovanni Offredi had a big success with his innovative design for example the Wave sofa represents the peak of the Saporiti international success. Its purity of lines and its extra-large proportions, result in an incredible attraction for Saporiti’s international markets. There is a leit motiv...
Category

Late 20th Century Italian Dry Bars

Materials

Leather, Birdseye Maple

Dassi Vittorio Walnut Italian Midcentury Cabinet Buffet, 1940
Located in Rome, IT
Bar cabinet buffet by Vittorio Dassi, composed of precious materials, such as walnut wood, brass and glass. All veneered in walnut wood. Top in gold colored glass, recessed. Three f...
Category

1940s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Dry Bars

Materials

Glass, Mirror, Maple, Walnut

Aldo Tura Goatskin/ Brass bar Cart, Italy
Located in Cincinnati, OH
A goatskin covered double tiered rolling bar cart with brass wheels, brass rails, handle and three ring bottle holder. The top part of the cart is held up by a brass tulip styled ped...
Category

Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Dry Bars

Materials

Goatskin

Torbjørn Afdal Bar Cabinet Model Times by Mellemstrands Møbelfabrik in Norway
Located in Limhamn, Skåne län
Rare bar cabinet model Times designed by Torbjørn Afdal. Produced by Mellemstrands Møbelfabrik / Bruksbo in Norway.
Category

1960s Norwegian Scandinavian Modern Vintage Dry Bars

Materials

Brass

Modernist Bar Cabinet, Walnut and Maple, Germany, circa 1930
Located in Regensburg, DE
Modernist Bauhaus Bar Cabinet / Dry Bar from Germany, circa 1930. Outside with walnut veneer, high-gloss lacquered and partly ebonized as well as decorative aluminium trims on the f...
Category

1930s German Bauhaus Vintage Dry Bars

Materials

Metal, Aluminum

Walnut and Ebonized Wood Cabinet in the Style of Gio Ponti, Italy, 1930s-1940s
Located in Bresso, Lombardy
This cabinet is made in walnut and ebonized wood and the interiors are in ebonized mahogany. It's in the style of Gio Ponti. It has been perfectly restored and it can be considere...
Category

1930s Italian Vintage Dry Bars

Materials

Brass

Midcentury Danish Rosewood Coffee Table or Liquor Cabinet with Folding Tables
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This extremely unique vintage modern coffee table features a storage compartment on top with a lock, a lazy Susan, and four additional smaller tables. The versatile design functions ...
Category

1970s Danish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Dry Bars

Materials

Laminate, Rosewood

Wonderful Rare Aldo Tura Bar Cabinet Cherrywood, 1940
Located in Munich, DE
A rare and early cocktail cabinet, designed by and manufactured by Aldo Tura. Italy, circa 1940, carved cherry, dark stained cherry, polished, decorated with bands of twisted rope, ...
Category

1940s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Dry Bars

Materials

Brass

Bar Cabinet Coffee Table, France, 1930s
Located in New York, NY
France, 1930s Coffee table in polished wood, opens up to reveal concealed central bar cabinet, four drawers, interior in sycamore, bronze drawer pulls, inset glass panels protect top...
Category

1930s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Dry Bars

Materials

Wood

Art Deco French Sideboard in Mahoganies Marble Top
Located in Miami, FL
Mahogany middle size French Art Deco sideboard. Excellent and high quality craftsmanship. Superb mahogany and interesting hardware. Dry bar in the middle part. Beautiful marble top. ...
Category

1930s French Art Deco Vintage Dry Bars

Materials

Marble, Bronze

Swedish Art Deco Intarsia Storage, Bar Cabinet
Located in Atlanta, GA
Swedish Art Deco, verging on Art Moderne, storage, bar cabinet in elm, Carpathian Burl elm and dark flame birch with intarsia doors, curved sides and red Bakelite escutcheons. Upper ...
Category

20th Century Swedish Art Deco Dry Bars

Materials

Birch, Elm, Burl

Antique, New and Vintage Dry Bars

The name “dry bar” can be a bit of a misnomer. After all, the last thing you would want a bar to do is run dry. In this case, the “dry” descriptor in your antique or vintage dry bar doesn’t refer to a lack of drinks. Instead, it serves to differentiate dry-bar furniture from wet-bar installations. The latter is typically a permanent fixture in a home, requiring plumbing to support a built-in sink.

In short, a dry bar is a piece of furniture or tabletop area that you’ve built into your space for mixing cocktails and storing everything needed —bottles, barware and other accessories — for the intoxicating in-home bar you’ve designed.

Some dry bars were built with minimalism in mind. Those crafted by designers associated with mid-century modernism or Scandinvanian modern, for example, likely looked to these as practical furnishings to serve as a cabinet or case piece. But there have been decorative and even outwardly sculptural interpretations by Art Deco furniture makers and those working in the Hollywood Regency style over the years.

No matter what kind of antique, new or vintage dry bar fits your space, these versatile furnishings can definitely elevate your home bar area as well as your hosting. We’ll toast to that!

Find your dry bar as well as all the barware you need on 1stDibs.

Recently Viewed

View All