BH | Studio Stamford Tall Bar Cabinet

Keeping wine at hand in the dining room is an old habit. The Georgian cellaret, a lidded case fitted for bottles, often stood beneath the sideboard, and in the 1920s and 1930s the cocktail cabinet arrived to hold bottles, shakers and glasses together behind closed doors.

This one is a tall, upright cabinet on four tapered legs that splay gently outward. Two slatted doors close over the interior on soft-close hinges, and inside is everything a home bar needs in one place: open shelves for bottles and mixers, a rack that holds wine bottles, a rack for stemmed glasses, and two drawers that close softly, for corkscrews, napkins and coasters. The frame is engineered wood with a laminate wood-grain surface in a warm mid-brown.

Its upright shape suits the corner of a dining room or the end of a living room, where it takes up little floor and gives a party a natural gathering place; in a den or lounge it holds everything you would otherwise keep on a bar cart. Set an ice bucket and a bowl of lemons on top before guests arrive. Warm wood and slatted doors suit a mid-century room with a sunburst mirror, a cognac leather chair, a jazz record on the turntable and a row of coupe glasses.