BH | Studio Lindau Fluted Sideboard

Fluting, the run of narrow concave grooves cut into a surface, comes from the columns of classical Greece, and furniture makers have borrowed it for centuries, the German cabinetmakers of the neoclassical era among the most skilful of them. In the 1930s, American makers paired it with the 'waterfall' edge, where a top curves down over the sides in one smooth sweep.

This long sideboard is a clean, rounded box: the top rolls over at each end in a waterfall edge and runs down to the floor, and every door and side is cut with fine vertical flutes. The four doors open with a push, so there are no handles to break the lines. Behind them, the shelves move up or down to fit bottles, plates or a media player, and covered cord holes at the back keep cables out of sight. Adjustable levelers steady it on an uneven floor, and it arrives fully assembled.

In a dining room it serves as a buffet for china and glassware, with candles and a big bowl of fruit on top. Under a wall-hung screen it makes a handsome media console and the boxes hidden away, and in a long hall it serves as an entry credenza for shoes, scarves and mail. The flutes look rich under low lamplight with a leather chair and a vintage rug.