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 [...]

Art Nouveau Sideboards
Emerging at the very end of the century, the Art Nouveau style produced sideboards which, light, ornamental and organic in conception, was hardly as ponderous as the blocky pieces of the contemporary arts and crafts
movement. These were as heavily formed as they were laden with social significance.
Representing the first major break from the [...]