At Your Service: 10 Modern Sideboards

While most household furniture serves a simple utilitarian service, sometimes it stands for something too. Sideboards, for instance, were once the hallmark of opulence, rising to prominence in the 19th century across Western Europe and the United States as it became more common for upper middle class homes to have dining rooms separate from the kitchen and living space. Today, we’ve rounded up a variety of modern sideboards, from the simplicity of Crate & Barrel’s

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10 Innovative Pieces of Solid Wood Furniture

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At some point in the mile-a-minute blip culture in which we live, designers went reaching far and wide for new materials, new ideas and new ways to interpret every piece of furniture in, on and around which we conduct our lives. And then, thankfully, it simply occurred to someone: what ever happened to wood? Today’s roundup of solid wood furniture presents an innovative array of current, timeless, and in some cases, futuristic pieces created from

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Once Upon a Shelf: 10 Stunning Bookcase Designs

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Reading is fundamental — any educator will tell you so. And while the bookworms among us would stack hundreds of books on the floor if we had to in order to keep them around, it’s obviously a bit more civilized to keep them organized in a bookcase. Today’s roundup of stunning bookcase designs ranges from the uber-organized filing system of the USA Bookcase by Ron Arad to the hippie-chic hanging net comprising the Bookwave by

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What’s Simple Is True: 10 Classic Pieces of Amish Furniture

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Many of us are familiar with Mission and Shaker tables, chairs, beds and desks, but it’s a lesser-known fact that both styles are subsets of a broader genre: handcrafted Amish furniture. Since the use of electricity is prohibited in accordance with the culture’s spiritual beliefs, pneumatic and hydraulic power is used in the making of many of its pieces. And since internet technology clearly requires electricity to work, no Amish craftsmen are able to sell

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Get It Together: 10 Modern Storage Cabinets

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We all made grand plans last month to get organized, do a little spring cleaning, and keep it all together in a more orderly fashion than we did in 2011. For those of us who haven’t quite gotten started on those endeavors just yet comes today’s roundup of ten modern storage cabinets. They’re all so attractive, the task of organizing our lives seems slightly less daunting and almost like a bit of an adventure. From

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