Image source: Cassina — Serving Cart
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Serving Cart
Serving Cart: Bodil Kjaer's 1963 solid wood food and beverage cart with coloured centre shelves.
820 × 810 × 550 mm
1963
Official product information
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Overview
The Serving Cart is a food and beverage cart designed by Bodil Kjaer in 1963 and produced by Cassina. Cassina says it can be tucked away under the table when not in use, or kept in view like a small, elegant architectural accessory.
Construction
- Structure: solid wood.
- Intermediate shelves: 4 mm coloured Compact HPL.
- Upper shelves: brushed, laminated stainless steel.
- Drawer and removable dividers: solid Canaletto walnut, oak or black stained ash with a low gloss finish.
Specifications
- 82 x 55 x 81 cm (model 657 01/02/05).
Story
Serving guests while talking to them
Cassina says Bodil Kjaer designed the Serving Cart for a lively social life and for kitchens far from the living room, so that she could keep serving her guests while continuing to converse with them.
Changing lifestyles
The page links the cart to a shift in lifestyles, with meals taken in front of the TV or on the patio and homes growing smaller.
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