Teak and Brass Sideboard with Drawers by La Permanente Mobili Cantù

Sideboard made of teak wood with brass details. Sliding doors, one of them decorated with fabric. Produced by La Permanente Mobili Cantù and designed by Finnish interior architect Il...

Teak sideboard from the '60s designed by George Coslin. Front with two black leatherette covered sliding doors, four drawers with felt interior and a smaller storage place with a shelf on the right. The doors and drawers are positioned slightly inwards compared to the frame, creating some depth. There is also a nice metal detailing to frame the black doors...

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...

Italian credenza sideboard by La Permanente Mobili Cantù, Gio Ponti attributed, polished to wax, circa 1950s. Legs and contours in solid blond walnut. Flat surfaces in walnut veneer...