Marquetry Sideboards

This magnificent demi-lune Georgian sideboard displays the pinnacle of the era’s refined craftsmanship and boasts a distinguished provenance. Crafted of the finest mahogany, the era's timber of choice for well-appointed manor homes, the sideboard is inlaid with satinwood marquetry and crossbanded with tulipwood, one of the most coveted species of rosewood. Tulipwood is prized not only for its durability but also for its innate beauty. The sideboard features its original brass pull handles and knobs. Illustrating the caliber of its exquisite craftsmanship, this large demi-lune sideboard was once housed in one of the most illustrious grand manor homes of the era, Hackwood Park...

The Vortex Cabinet is as much a work of art and a puzzle as it is an item of furniture. Covered in a veneer of Sycamore and Santos rosewood, the marquetry design challenges the perceptions of a usual cabinet. An optical illusion with seemingly no discernible doors or drawers, beautiful in its own right but deceiving in its initial impression of functionality. With buttons hidden within the marquetry, the secret doors...

Pair of bamboo modernist French buffets with stylized bamboo chromed steel frames. The bamboo marquetry is superb! Each credenza features two doors and four drawers.

French rosewood buffet in the manner of Paul Follot. This beautiful piece has a wonderful “chevron” patterned marquetry. The buffet has two sets of double doors with interior shelves...

This fine and large sideboard, or console table, commands attention, and yet exudes both the grace and the refined elegance of the neoclassical style, which has enjoyed continued revivals in England from the 18th century onward. This particular piece is reminiscent of the work of Robert and James Adam, Scottish architects and designers of the 18th century, who were famous for executing many prominent buildings and also for presiding over a particular style of neoclassicism which was widely used for interior decorations and furniture. This sideboard is of curved, rectangular form and is particularly striking for the frieze which runs around its width, just below the top. The frieze features marquetry decorations of fruit baskets and scrolling arabesques, intersected by small, arched painted panels of classical women stood atop pedestals, on a green ground. The painted panels are framed within beaded gilt borders, and the frieze is bordered above and below with gilt banding. The centre of the frieze features a wide drawer, and each of the curved ends open into shallow cupboards...

The Vortex Cabinet is as much a work of art and a puzzle as it is an item of furniture. Covered in a veneer of Sycamore and Santos rosewood, the marquetry design challenges the perceptions of a usual cabinet. An optical illusion with seemingly no discernible doors or drawers, beautiful in its own right but deceiving in its initial impression of functionality. With buttons hidden within the marquetry, the secret doors...