{"product_id":"a-fully-restored-vittorio-dassi-doubled-bodied-sideboard-cabinet-italian-circa-1950s","title":"Vittorio Dassi — Double-Bodied Sideboard in Rosewood, Lissone, c.1950s","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eVittorio Dassi was a cabinetmaker before he was a designer, and the work shows it. He grew up in the Brianza cabinetmaking trade - in Lissone, the small town twenty kilometres north of Milan - and built his own firm there, Dassi Mobili Interni, into one of the most important Italian furniture houses of the mid-twentieth century. His approach to design always carried the discipline of the bench. He collaborated through his career with Gio Ponti, Paolo Buffa, Edmondo Palutari and others, building their drawings. But he also drew his own. The Dassi pieces from the 1940s and '50s - sideboards, highboards, vitrines, dining suites - are recognisable on sight: highly polished palissandro, often laid in herringbone parquetry; sculpted wood handles carved into the doors and drawers rather than applied as hardware; lacquered or parchment-lined interiors; tapered legs tipped in brass. The work has its own confidence. It does not need a designer's name on the label to identify it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThis double-bodied sideboard is one of his. An upper case with a central glazed vitrine - its doors framed in rosewood and fitted with small brass escutcheons - flanked by closed cabinet doors faced in herringbone parquetry; a separate lower base, slightly stepped back, holding a long bank of drawers, a central group with sculpted wood pulls carved into the rosewood, flanked at each end by smaller drawers with brass pulls; tapered legs in black-lacquered wood tipped in brass. The vitrine interior is finished in pale parchment, designed to display glass and ceramic against a warm, soft ground.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eFully restored. Surface and finish refreshed; original frame and hardware retained.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eDimensions: H 1.83m × W 2.65m × D 0.50m\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eEnquire about this piece via the form below. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Leopard","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48987192951011,"sku":null,"price":12000.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0752\/5230\/2051\/files\/Screenshot2026-05-18at4.40.52pm.png?v=1779086529","url":"https:\/\/theleopard.com.au\/products\/a-fully-restored-vittorio-dassi-doubled-bodied-sideboard-cabinet-italian-circa-1950s","provider":"The Leopard","version":"1.0","type":"link"}