Tambour Sideboard

A sideboard in quarter-sawn oak, with a black-stained carcass, sliding tambour doors and three internal drawers.

The piece is built around a traditionally made tambour front. The tambour is made from narrow timber slats, individually backed onto canvas to create a flexible wooden panel. This panel runs in a curved groove within the cabinet, allowing the doors to slide sideways and disappear into concealed compartments at either end.

When closed, the tambour creates a clean, continuous surface across the front of the sideboard. When opened, it reveals open shelving and three internal drawers, made with traditional hand-cut dovetail joinery.

The tambour and interior are finished with a subtle whitewash, contrasting with the black-stained outer carcass.

The piece brings together several traditional cabinet-making processes, from the sliding tambour frontage to the hand-cut carcass and drawers, and quarter-sawn oak construction. These details give the sideboard its quiet technical depth, without interrupting the clean, restrained form of the cabinet.