{"id":271559,"date":"2026-03-13T08:44:05","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T07:44:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/amaruantiques.com\/?post_type=product&p=271559"},"modified":"2026-04-27T15:55:28","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T13:55:28","slug":"mid-century-walnut-veneered-sideboard-with-tapered-legs-czechoslovakia-circa-1960-am33038","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/amaruantiques.stg.uzero.cat\/en\/antique-furniture\/mid-century-walnut-veneered-sideboard-with-tapered-legs-czechoslovakia-circa-1960-am33038\/","title":{"rendered":"Mid-Century walnut-veneered sideboard with tapered legs \u2013 Czechoslovakia, circa 1960"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mid-Century sideboard<\/strong> veneered in walnut and raised on tapered legs, made in Czechoslovakia around 1960. A Mid-Century Modern piece halfway between a dining-room sideboard<\/em> and a living-room storage cabinet<\/em>, representative of the post-war Central European furniture industry<\/em> in a modern key.<\/p>\n

In Central Europe of the fifties and sixties \u2014 Czechoslovakia, Poland, GDR \u2014 a furniture industry of high technical quality emerged that adapted Scandinavian and Italian lines to serial workshop production. Sideboards like this were conceived as the principal piece of the dining-living room: they housed crockery, table linen, glassware and serving items in a light volume, raised off the floor to emphasize the horizontality of the whole.<\/p>\n

It is built on a solid wood structure veneered in walnut, with a multi-section front resolved in strongly figured wood and bookmatched veneers \u2014 two veneer leaves mirrored symmetrically, a hallmark of the Mid-Century. The legs are tapered, in solid wood, joined to the body with visible dowels. The top is finished with a thin edge and a black trim moulding that separates the body from the surface.<\/p>\n

The patina preserves the depth of the original walnut: the veneer keeps its soft sheen with a very even natural ageing. The legs and edges show light rubs typical of use and circulation, without affecting structural integrity. The interior is in good order, with functional shelves.<\/p>\n

Thanks to its modern silhouette and elegant lines, it sits naturally in Mid-Century, vintage, japandi and contemporary modern interiors, where it works as a dining-room sideboard, a living-room storage piece, a low cabinet in a bedroom or a support piece for a television. Its figured surface introduces warmth without resorting to colour.<\/p>\n

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