SIDEBOARDS reproduction, 1890-1930: ‘Jacobean’ oak varieties
The ‘Jacobean’ style was popular well before the onset of the standard ‘Tudor’ dining room of the 1920s and 1930s. By the 1890s the popularity of medievalism had brought out a surge of ‘old oak’ manufacture.
Commercially produced sideboards of the period simply reflect the desire to satisfy this trend.
An oak [...]
SIDEBOARDS reproduction, 1890-1930:
`Queen Anne’ styles leading to ‘burr walnut bedappled’
It is not quite clear when the return to 18th century designs led to a thirst for ‘Queen Anne’. Certainly the cabriole leg was used on dining chairs before the end of the century. This feature, on sideboards, seems to have been a bit later say [...]
Antique Vicorian, Edwardian and 1920`s Sideboards
By 1860 the sideboard had followed the evolution of styles in much the same way as other Victorian furniture, with a few slight differences. From its original, Adam form, it became a heavier, end-pedimented piece made in sub-classical, usually Grecian, style with a heavy, drawered top connecting the two end [...]
SIDEBOARDS reproduction, 1880-1930: 18th century and early 19th century mahogany
The sideboard almost as Adam originally saw it in 1760. Two pedestals flanking a table with a wine cooler under it. The pedestals have urn-shaped vases lined to take iced water for drinking and hot water for washing silver. The pedestals could be used as plate [...]
SIDEBOARDS hybrid, 1900-1930
From 1900 to 1930 the sideboard was also subject to a mixture of styles being applied to one piece. A small selection of such hybrids is shown here to illustrate how there are quite a large number of pieces which defy
classification into an accepted stylistic nomenclature.
A veneered walnut sideboard incorporating panels of burr [...]
SIDEBOARDS art nouveau and progressive, 1890-1915
We have explained elsewhere how art nouveau is a term now used to describe furniture which many of its English original designers would have hotly refuted. The Scottish school and the Century Guild are another
matter, since their sinuous designs are much more akin to Continental art nouveau.
In this section we [...]
SIDEBOARDS ‘modern’, 1920-1930
In this section a number of interesting designs which are quite modern in spirit and technique are illustrated. They are mostly by `famous’ designers with perhaps the exception of Percy Wells. In due course it will be possible to produce further illustrations as more research and identification work is carried out the real [...]
SIDEBOARDS
About 1770-1915
Inlaid mahogany bow-fronted sideboard, about 1780-1790.
Auseful piece of dining-furniture comprising a number of drawers and cupboards for the storage of cutlery, table linen, condiments and so on, which evolved during the 1770s from the very grand side-table and pedestal ensembles first designed by Robert Adam. In the late-18th/ early-19thC, they often incorporated a plate-warmer, [...]