Description
A fantastic, compact mid century sideboard in beautiful walnut, this is a truly eye-catching piece of cabinetry. This gorgeous little credenza features a drop front drinks cabinet with a checkerboard pattern to its door front. To the right hand side is a shelved cupboard. In the centre is a cabinet with sliding glass doors, a glass shelf and a mirror to its rear. There are two drawers that run along the bottom of the piece. So many storage options in such a compact footprint. Those splayed legs are so aattractive too! It’s these clever design elements that make this sideboard such an eye-catching piece of retro furniture.
Beautility Furniture was a British furniture company that was in business for nearly 100 years from the 1890s. It specialised in contemporary wooden dining suites and sideboards. Many pieces of Beautility furniture survive in styles ranging from art deco to the straight lines of the 1960s and 1970s. Beautility Furniture of London, UK, was established in 1894 in Bethnal Green in the city’s East End. Beautility moved to Edmonton, London, in the 1930s. Its factory was close to the River Lee Navigation, and timber was brought by barge from the London Docks. The immediate area was also home to furniture makers Nathan and Homeworthy.
The company had a showroom in Oxford Street, London, in the late 1950s. Its products were also sold through furniture shops such as Waring & Gillow. The Beautility brand name was acquired in the 1990s by the Morris Furniture Group of Glasgow, the UK’s largest independent cabinet furniture maker, which dates from 1904.
Pretty much unseen due to its location but there is a little ‘foxing’ to the mirror that sits inside the back of the centre cabinet.
W141 x D50 x H88cm
