Sentence examples for sideboard from inspiring English sources

A replica of one room, complete with a cluttered sideboard (a bike helmet, nylon scarf and pair of pumps strewn on top of it) seems to have come straight from CERN.

Even so, next time you wonder how anyone could have come up with the fiendish plans for a Hensvik storage unit or a Bjursta sideboard, spare a thought for the Kamprads' accountants.

A magnificent Anglo-Japanese sideboard by Edward William Godwin, an architect and designer who built houses for Oscar Wilde and James Whistler, sold last year for nearly £1m ($1.9m) to the Art Institute of Chicago.Next month's sale features a number of Godwin pieces, including an ebonised hanging bookcase, estimated at £60,000-80,000, and an ebonised chair, estimated at £10,000-12,000.

From the design-fair circuit come functional works like Mark Moskovitz's "Facecord," a sideboard that looks like a stack of firewood when the drawers are closed, and Maarten Baas's knife block in the shape of a head (which seems destined for the MoMA design store). 2 Columbus Circle, (212) 299-7777, madmuseum.org.org

Usually kept under the centre of a sideboard or side table, they were rolled out for use.

Elaborate fantasies of design often converted the sideboard into a replica of a medieval cathedral or something equally improbable.

Beside this is usually a chigai-dana, an asymmetric arrangement of cupboards and shelves somewhat like a sideboard.

In some examples a wine cooler is incorporated into the main structure of the sideboard, and there were often spaces for chamber pots.

The sideboard still retains its function in the 20th century, but stylistically there has been a reversion to simpler types, closer in feeling to 18th-century designs.

Knife case, leather or wooden container for cutlery, placed in pairs on a sideboard or buffet in the dining room.

Cellarette, small, movable wine cooler and, later, also a deep, metal-lined tray with compartments for holding bottles in a sideboard.