BH | Studio Helsingør Slatted Sideboard

The low credenza became the backbone of the living room in the 1950s and 60s, when houses filled with radios, record players and the first televisions, and furniture had to hide them handsomely. Slatted fronts were part of the language, letting air move and sound carry while keeping clutter out of view.

This sideboard is faced in a warm wood-grain veneer, its doors made of deep horizontal slats that throw fine lines of shadow and let air move through, which keeps media equipment cool. The doors close on soft-close hinges, the shelves inside adjust in height, and a cord hole carries cables out. At the back, sliding panels can be opened for access or lifted out altogether. It stands on slim powder-coated black iron legs.

In a dining room it holds plates, silverware and table linen, with brass candlesticks and a bowl of quinces on top. Elsewhere it doubles as a media console or a display for books and ceramics, and in an entry it takes a mirror above and baskets inside for hats and gloves. Warm slatted wood looks very mid-century with a sputnik light, a sunburst mirror and olive green accents.