Sideboard U-452 Jiri Jiroutek

In original state restored 60s sideboard that is in optimal condition again. Restored means that the construction has been checked, the cabinet has been cleaned and completely sanded and provided with new hardwax oil.

Jiri Jiroutek is a Czech furniture and interior designer who designed his U-450 sideboard series for the Czech furniture manufacturer Interier Praha during the 1950s and 1960s.

In 1958 he was part of the group of designers who exhibited their creations at the World Exhibition in Brussels, the first since WWII. The Czechoslovak pavilion, built of steel, glass and concrete, was one of the most successful and won many prizes. The designers could not witness this success in Brussels because the regime at the time was afraid that they would not return to Czechoslovakia, where they had nationalized all private enterprises into communist societies.

Riding on the wave of Brussels success, Jiri Jiroutek designed his iconic and timeless U-450 sideboard series that same year, which became the most sought-after sideboard in Eastern Europe for a period of 20 years. It is unknown whether the piece of furniture was also available on our side of the Iron Curtain.

The U-450 series is unique due to the use of pastel colours, new geometric shapes and the use of new materials that resulted in sleekly designed sideboards made of oak veneer with the characteristic checked colour patterns on drawers and sliding doors.