{"title":"SIDEBOARDS","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"guglielmo-ulrich-sideboard-for-saffa-milano-1950-copy","title":"Guglielmo Ulrich Sideboard for S.A.F.F.A. Milano, 1950","description":"\u003cp\u003eGuglielmo Ulrich Sideboard for S.A.F.F.A. Milano, wood, Italy, 1950.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDesigned by Guglielmo Ulrich in 1950, this mid-century sideboard reflects a shift from his earlier neoclassical style toward modernist rigor. Built in solid wood, it features three flush-panel doors with fine reed-like textures, expressing Ulrich’s refined sense of proportion and surface rhythm. Inside, two floating drawers in the upper left bay offer an uncommon yet functional layout. Departing from decorative flourishes, the piece embraces stricter geometries akin to the architectural approach of Paolo Buffa. Elevated on a rectilinear frame with recessed feet, it balances structural solidity with visual lightness. Each modular section supports versatile storage needs for domestic or studio settings.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eCrafted during Italy’s post-war reconstruction, it exemplifies the Milanese school’s blend of industrial potential and artisanal detail. Ulrich, like contemporaries Osvaldo Borsani and Ico Parisi, often collaborated with Cantù artisans to advance Italian cabinetmaking beyond ornament toward structural innovation. A subtle notch in the frame base hints at early experiments in shadow play, rare in Ulrich’s work but resonant with Carlo De Carli’s designs. Both collectible and practical, this sideboard is a quiet yet powerful expression of high Italian modernism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eOur in-house atelier in Italy carefully double-checks each piece. 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Milano, exemplifies the architect-designer’s unmistakable balance of rigor, craftsmanship, and quiet luxury.\u003cbr\u003eMade entirely of wood, the piece features a linear structure elevated on tapered legs and a façade defined by Ulrich’s signature fluted doors, an element he often employed to create rhythm and vertical tension while softening the overall volume.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe interior is thoughtfully organized with shelves that highlight the functional clarity typical of Ulrich’s post-war production for S.A.F.F.A., one of the leading Italian manufacturers collaborating with refined designers of the time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eGuglielmo Ulrich (1904–1977) was one of the most elegant voices in 20th-century Italian design: trained as an architect, he developed a style that merged Milanese rationalism with bespoke craftsmanship, often blending clean geometries, noble woods, and subtle ornamentation. His work sits in dialogue with contemporaries such as Gio Ponti, Paolo Buffa, and Osvaldo Borsani, sharing with them a pursuit of refined proportions and architectural clarity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eOur in-house atelier in Italy carefully double-checks each piece. 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The corners are wrapped in hand-bound rattan collars, a signature Vivai del Sud detail that both reinforces the joinery and softens the geometry of the case, and the tapered cylindrical legs continue the bamboo vocabulary down to the floor.\u003cbr\u003eBehind the two hinged doors and the bank of four central drawers, the interior is finished in plywood, a practical counterpoint to the exhibition-grade bamboo cladding outside. The drawer fronts pick up the same horizontal cane ribbing as the case sides, with turned wood pulls that keep the hardware within the same material family. It is a piece built for the kind of interior that treats natural materials as sculpture, equally at home as a console in an entry hall or as storage in a study.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Modernab ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57380631544181,"sku":null,"price":12500.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0954\/5688\/7157\/files\/fv1-4545-1400x.jpg?v=1784819676"},{"product_id":"angelo-mangiarotti-multi-use-sideboard-for-poltronova-1965","title":"Angelo Mangiarotti \"Multi-Use\" Sideboard for Poltronova, 1965","description":"\u003cp\u003eAngelo Mangiarotti \"Multi-Use\" Sideboard for Poltronova, wood and metal, Italy, 1965\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis sideboard by Angelo Mangiarotti for Poltronova is built in whitewashed wood, its cantilevered top extending well beyond the case on both sides to form open shelves, each carried by a single vertical support fin rather than a full end panel. Two sliding doors run along a recessed aluminum channel set into the underside of the top edge, allowing the case to open without requiring swing clearance. Behind them, a fixed shelf divides the storage space, finished in a deeper taupe tone against the paler exterior casework. Every visible edge, from the shelf returns to the door channel, is worked with the same close attention to joinery, and the base is formed by two flat vertical legs set well in from the ends, giving the whole composition a sense of weightlessness.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe piece belongs to Mangiarotti's broader investigation, carried out across several manufacturers through the 1960s, into modular case furniture whose function could be reconfigured by the owner, combining shelving, storage and display within a single volume rather than assigning each to a separate object. Working with Poltronova, Mangiarotti brought the same structural rigor he applied to his architectural work, treating the cantilevered top and the exposed support fins as load-bearing elements left visible rather than concealed. 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Behind the doors, the interior is finished in pale birch, with adjustable shelving on either side and a bank of two drawers built with dovetailed joinery, their fronts shaped into a hand pull rather than fitted with applied hardware. The case tapers down into slender legs finished with brass cone-shaped sabots, a detail that lifts the sideboard's visual weight against its long horizontal proportions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThat contrast, a solid run of ribbed doors set on a base that looks almost too fine for the job, is characteristic of the language Gio Ponti developed for Italian cabinetry through the 1940s. He returned often to this pairing of substantial casework with slender, tapered supports and small brass accents, letting the base carry a lightness the case itself doesn't have. 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