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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...
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1940s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Dry Bars

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Glass, Mirror, Maple, Walnut

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. ...
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1970s Spanish Modern Vintage Dry Bars

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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...
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Late 20th Century Italian Dry Bars

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Leather, Birdseye Maple

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

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Goatskin

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...
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1930s German Bauhaus Vintage Dry Bars

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Metal, Aluminum

Penderyn Bar/Highboy Server, USA
Located in New York, NY
The meticulous craftsmanship and extravagant detailing of Damian Jones’s magnificent capsule shaped Penderyn Bar/Highboy Server is a testament to the artist’s unique vision. The thre...
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2010s British Dry Bars

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Silver, Brass

Plano Bar Cabinet in Bronze, Curved Glass Doors, Waxed Leather Bottle Slings
Located in Vancouver, BC
A monument to curiosity and an invitation for the viewer to engage with the objects contained within. Its presence is created by the tension of delicate lightness contrasted with imposing size, and the interplay between light and shadow. Crafted by hand from the finest materials, it is a cabinet like no other – the marriage of the artist’s idealistic impracticality to the possibilities of industrial process. Shown with frame in Warm Bronze and Blackened Steel, frosted glass doors...
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21st Century and Contemporary Canadian Modern Dry Bars

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Bronze, Metal

Industrial Modern Bar by Peter Harrison, Metal & Black Wood, In Stock
Located in Middle Grove, NY
The Ganymede liquor cabinet is a captivating statement for your home. It is meticulously constructed out of 399 individual components. The doors hinge on a studio made machined hinge...
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2010s American Modern Dry Bars

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Aluminum

Zelouf & Bell, "Stella'd, " Contemporary Vertical Bar Cabinet, Ireland, 2018
Located in New York, NY
Edition of 6 + 1 AP. Influenced heavily by the visionary artist Frank Stella's painting Six Mile Bottom, this cabinet draws the eye to its center with hypnotizing concentric lines. Its Eucalyptus doors are inlaid with ripple sycamore...
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2010s Irish Dry Bars

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Brass

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...
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1930s Italian Vintage Dry Bars

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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 ...
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1970s Danish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Dry Bars

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Laminate, Rosewood

Bar Cabinet in Paonazzo Marble, Wood, Solid Brass
Located in Carrara, IT
Dionisio is a bar cabinet, here proposed in the version with Paonazzo marble. It is made with a cherrywood structure, doors and inner back-piece mirror glass shelves, back lighting, and under-structure and details in solid brass. Dionisio belongs to the Capsule collection 2017 by Massimiliano Giornetti, long time creative director for the fashion house Salvatore Ferragamo who designed a collection for Tuscan...
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2010s Italian Dry Bars

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Marble, Brass

Bar Cabinet in Black Port Laurent Marble, Wood, Solid Brass
Located in Carrara, IT
Dionisio is a bar cabinet in black Port Laurent marble, with a cherrywood structure, doors and inner back-piece mirror glass shelves, back lighting...
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2010s Italian Dry Bars

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Marble, Brass

Zelouf + Bell, "Serpent in the Maze, " Two-Tiered Bar Cart, Ireland, 2018
Located in New York, NY
Zelouf & Bell’s Serpent in the maze champagne cart is a marvel of craftsmanship, of lush materials used in perfect concert with one another. Built on a ...
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2010s Irish Dry Bars

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Stainless Steel

Modern Bar Cart with Polished Stainless Steel, Sapphire Glass and Painted Body
Located in Chicago, IL
A modern day twist on a Classic, the bar cart with its hidden casters, appears to float across the floor, made of a painted steel body with glass and polished stainless steel details...
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2010s American Modern Dry Bars

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Steel, Stainless Steel

Jacques Adnet Inspired Dry Bar
Located in Chicago, IL
Jacques Adnet inspired dry bar available in any size, or finish. We build them to order in our own workshop, so your options are endless. The stars are solid cast brass using the ori...
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2010s American Dry Bars

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Wood

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, ...
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1940s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Dry Bars

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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...
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1930s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Dry Bars

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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. ...
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1930s French Art Deco Vintage Dry Bars

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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 ...
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20th Century Swedish Art Deco Dry Bars

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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!

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