Vivai del Sud Sideboard in Bamboo, Italy, 1970s
Description
Vivai del Sud Sideboard with Diamond Marquetry Doors, Bamboo, Italy, 1970s
This sideboard by Vivai del Sud stages bamboo not as a rustic material but as a graphic system: chevron-cut canes run diagonally across the top and side panels, while the two cabinet doors are built from radiating diamond marquetry that reads almost like inlay work from a distance. 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.
Behind 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.
Dimensions
Height: 31.89 in (81 cm)
Width: 63 in (160 cm)
Depth: 21.66 in (55 cm)
Design
1970s
Manufacture
1970-1979
Material
Bamboo
Location
Lonigo, IT
Condition
Our atelier carefully restored the sideboard, with attention to structural integrity, materials, and finish. The process was guided by deep respect for its authenticity, balancing technical intervention and historical sensitivity.