Bamboo Dresser in the style of Vivai del Sud, Italy, 1960s

Design
1970s

Manufacture
1970-1979

Location
Lonigo, IT

Bamboo Dresser in the style of Vivai del Sud, bamboo, Italy, 1960s

This sideboard 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.