Cocktail cabinet

Like many interior designers, Maurice Adams was a talented self-promoter and a canny businessman. Despite being the self-professed 'originator and inventor' of the revived georgian style that he called ‘King George V’ style, when the tides of taste turned in the 1930s towards an increasingly modernist style, Adams took a pragmatic approach, abandoning his traditional style for the sleeker lines of modernism. This cocktail cabinet shows the final stage in Adams's transition from Revivalist to Modernist. Its compact form and use of 'modern' materials such as chrome and glass, marked a radical departure from the richly figured veneers and classic shapes employed by Adams in the past. Adams's de

Cocktail cabinet · Great Britain · 1933. Ebonsied mahogany with chromium mounts and glass galleries. By Adams, Maurice S. R.. Victoria and Albert Museum, London.