Modern sideboards: an antique piece of furniture that dresses up again
Whether it’s the living room or the entrance, opting for a beautiful modern sideboard is very often an effective and functional choice. Sometimes it doesn’t take much to furnish a home space with simplicity and elegance, even when it comes to the living area.
The origins of the sideboard are ancient. In the past it was used in kitchens to knead and store bread, it was considered an indispensable piece of furniture in the homes of the past. Again, in ancient times the wooden sideboard had the typical shape of a rectangular chest, resting on four feet, but often it was equipped with a hinged lid, rather than doors.
Modern sideboards have retained that charm that smacks of tradition, mostly maintaining the rectangular shape, even if materials and colours are the most disparate. The major Italian design brands offer a wide variety of modern living room sideboards, each of which can adapt to any style of furniture and home space. Discover them with us!
From classic lines to geometric designs: the modern sideboards by Tonin Casa
Tonin Casa, a Venetian company with more than forty years of experience, offers a range of modern sideboards whose design ranges from sophisticated vintage, which winks at the 60’s style, to modern with geometric touches.
Let’s start with a striking example of the brand’s style. The modern Opera sideboard by Tonin Casa, made with a solid metal base painted in charcoal grey and the structure in Canaletto walnut. Opera is a design sideboard that has two side doors and three central drawers, in which it is possible to store common objects, documents and everything that needs to be filed. Ideal for the living room, this wooden sideboard is able to adapt to various types of furniture, from classic to modern and contemporary.
The aesthetics of Tonin Casa’s modern Depop sideboard is a combination of delicate geometries and simplicity of lines. This sideboard indeed has a wooden structure, supported by simple metal feet, available in matt black and matt gold, and doors decorated with silk-screen printing of geometric motifs.
From a functional point of view, Depop is ideal for the living area of the house. Indeed it has a central chest of drawers where you can store objects and so on thanks to the inner shelves. The structure is available in different finishes and colours:
- gunmetal grey and glossy beige grey structure
- amaranth red structure and glossy wine red design
- matt black structure and glossy ocean blue design.
If your living room needs a touch of minimalism, Depop is the right sideboard for you!
Kayak and Voyager: the modern sideboard according to Cattelan Italia
Even a leading brand of Italian design in the world like Cattelan offers modern sideboards worthy of note. The first we suggest is the modern sideboard Kayak Cattelan Italia, whose contemporary design conquers with aesthetic effects, which can only enrich a living room.
The image above shows Kayak in the glossy mocha model, but the brand proposes different finishes:
- glossy white lacquered
- glossy black lacquered
- polished moka lacquered
- polished red lacquered
- matt graphite lacquered
- titanium lacquered
Also with regard to the feet that support the structure, the choices range from polished stainless steel to matt white or matt graphite painted. Furthermore, the interiors of the modern Kayak sideboard are characterized by a set of transparent glass shelves, while for Kayak version with three doors, an internal drawer has also been prepared.
Although the name suggests travel and discovery, the modern sideboard Voyager Cattelan Italia is a piece of furniture that can permanently be present in your living room. Indeed, thanks to the modern design, made particular by the embossed decorations, this sideboard gives the space that unexpected and precious touch. Voyager is available in the version with two or three mirrored glass doors, in lacquered wood in various colours, as well as profiles in painted aluminum. Inside there are comfortable clear glass shelves, where you can store fine glasses or anything that needs a safe accommodation.
In a classy living area, Cattelan’s Voyager design sideboard is a must!
Varesina Fiam: not a mere modern sideboard
Youthful and multifunctional design, the modern Varesina Fiam sideboard is perfect in all those living rooms that need a breath of minimalism, without forgetting practicality and elegance. Modern and elegant, Varesina is an unusual piece of furniture because, despite the pure lines of its structure, it looks like an original sideboard, different from the others.
The structure of this modern sideboard is made up of 12 mm curved extralight or smoked glass elements. We know that Fiam, an Italian brand known all over the world, has been the number one in terms of crystal glass processing for years now: and glass is the undisputed protagonist of this wonderful Made in Italy creation. Moreover, Varesina also has closed container elements, equipped with flap doors, in wood covered with 6 mm “skinglass” enamelled glass. The color variants for this modern sideboard are:
- ivory
- graphite
- mocha
If you love to surround yourself with designer glass furniture, visit Fiam website now.
Shade Bonaldo Arredamenti: design and lightness
If the seventies have entered your heart and do not intend to give you respite, then the modern Shade sideboard by Bonaldo Arredamenti will win you over without too much effort. It may be due to its style, it may be due to the iridescent colour effect, the fact is that Shade adapts beautifully to contemporary style living rooms characterized by a chromatic range of bright colours. Even better, this design is the ideal furniture for homes furnished in Scandinavian style, which, as we know, stands out for the harmony resulting from the coexistence of pure white and the warm colour of birch wood.
Riflessi di luce for Psiche, the sideboard by Tonelli Design
Purity and linearity are the characteristics of the modern Psiche Tonelli Design sideboard, whose characterizing element is represented by the mirror effect doors, due to their glass covering: these are made with concave and convex shapes that give the product an elegant and timeless appearance. The brand, based in Pesaro in the Marche region, offers the possibility to choose between different sizes, with feet or in a suspended version, and additional accessories such as the inner glass shelves.
As for the wooden structure, you can choose between white and black, both lacquered versions, while the glass covering is also available in white lacquer.
Lovers of reflections will certainly not remain indifferent to the brightness that releases this modern sideboard, an indispensable piece of furniture in a refined home.
Still staying in the living room, we recommend that you take a look at Modern mirrors: between design and plays of light.
