Hollywood Regency Bar Cart
Vintage 1940s French Hollywood Regency Carts and Bar Carts
Brass
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Metal
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Brass
Vintage 1970s Hollywood Regency Carts and Bar Carts
Metal, Brass
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Brass
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Iron
Vintage 1970s Hollywood Regency Carts and Bar Carts
Brass
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Brass
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Silver Plate
Vintage 1940s French Hollywood Regency Carts and Bar Carts
Brass
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Iron
Vintage 1960s Unknown Hollywood Regency Carts and Bar Carts
Brass
Vintage 1970s Hollywood Regency Carts and Bar Carts
Brass
Vintage 1970s American Hollywood Regency Carts and Bar Carts
Brass
Vintage 1970s American Hollywood Regency Carts and Bar Carts
Brass
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Chrome
Vintage 1960s American Hollywood Regency Carts and Bar Carts
Chrome
Vintage 1970s Italian Hollywood Regency Carts and Bar Carts
Brass
Mid-20th Century Italian Hollywood Regency Carts and Bar Carts
Brass
Mid-20th Century American Hollywood Regency Carts and Bar Carts
Brass
Vintage 1950s American Hollywood Regency Carts and Bar Carts
Brass
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Mirror, Lucite
Vintage 1960s Hollywood Regency Carts and Bar Carts
Brass
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Iron, Gold Leaf
Vintage 1950s Italian Hollywood Regency Carts and Bar Carts
Brass
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Chrome
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Brass
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Wood
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Walnut
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Late 20th Century North American Hollywood Regency Carts and Bar Carts
Metal
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Giltwood
Vintage 1970s American Hollywood Regency Carts and Bar Carts
Aluminum, Chrome
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Brass
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Brass
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Carts and Bar Carts
Glass, Fiberglass
Vintage 1950s Italian Hollywood Regency Carts and Bar Carts
Brass
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Brass
Mid-20th Century Italian Hollywood Regency Carts and Bar Carts
Metal
Mid-20th Century Italian Hollywood Regency Carts and Bar Carts
Brass, Bronze
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Metal, Gold Plate, Chrome
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Brass
Mid-20th Century North American Hollywood Regency Carts and Bar Carts
Vintage 1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Carts and Bar Carts
Brass
Vintage 1970s American Mid-Century Modern Carts and Bar Carts
Brass
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Brass
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Faux Bamboo, Walnut
Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern Carts and Bar Carts
Wood
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Metal, Brass
Mid-20th Century Hollywood Regency Carts and Bar Carts
Mid-20th Century Hollywood Regency Carts and Bar Carts
Marble
Vintage 1960s American Hollywood Regency Carts and Bar Carts
Brass
Mid-20th Century French Hollywood Regency Carts and Bar Carts
Glass, Wood
Vintage 1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Carts and Bar Carts
Metal, Aluminum
Vintage 1940s Italian Hollywood Regency Carts and Bar Carts
Brass
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A Close Look at Hollywood Regency Furniture
The California-born style of Hollywood Regency, also known as Regency Moderne, emerged during the Golden Era of cinema from the 1920s to the ’50s. Decadent and bold, vintage Hollywood Regency furniture and interiors playfully mix colors like jewel tones and hot pinks with lacquered walls, gilded accents, mirrored surfaces and metallic finishes for maximalist spaces.
Although it involved elements of the coinciding Art Deco movement, such as a preference for clean lines, Hollywood Regency was much more opulent, inspired by glamorous movie stars and the lavish set designs for films being made in Tinseltown. Furniture designers associated with the style embraced an eclectic range of influences, including throwbacks to previous styles of grandeur, such as Rococo, neoclassical and chinoiserie, as well as materials, from bamboo dining chairs to lucite bar carts to sunburst mirrors made from gilded resin. Hollywood Regency end tables, floor lamps, chandeliers and other pieces tended to be small-scale, fitting into an overall design rather than serving as a focal point.
Interior decorator Dorothy Draper led the shaping of the Hollywood Regency style and also designed iconic pieces like the España chest, which was manufactured by Henredon. Virginia native William “Billy” Haines, a furniture designer who started as an actor, contrasted hand-painted wallpaper with Chinese ceramics and Chippendale chairs, while architect John Elgin Woolf imbued his Beverly Hills designs with theatrical details. Paul Revere Williams, a trailblazing African-American architect, was pivotal in defining the look through his commercial projects, such as the 1940s Beverly Hills Hotel and bespoke homes that mixed everything from Louis XV paneling to Georgian architecture.
Find a collection of vintage Hollywood Regency bedroom furniture, tables, seating and other pieces on 1stDibs.
Finding the Right Bar-carts for You
Forever a sleek and elegant furnishing that evokes luxury and sophistication, a vintage bar cart will prove both functional and fabulous in your living room.
Bar carts as we know them were originally conceived as tea trolleys — a modest-sized table on wheels, sometimes featuring both an upper and lower shelf — to help facilitate tea service during the Victorian era in England. Modern bar carts weren’t really a common fixture in American interiors until after the end of Prohibition in the 1930s, when they were rolled onto the sets of Hollywood films. There, they suggested wealth and status in the dining rooms of affluent characters.
As tough as the 1930s had been on the average working American, the postwar era yielded economic stability and growth in homeownership. Increasingly, bar carts designed by the likes of Edward Wormley and other furniture makers became an integral part of sunken living rooms across the United States in the 1950s.
Bar carts were a must-have addition to the sensuous and sleek low-profile furnishings that we now call mid-century modern, each outfitted with the finest spirits and savory snacks that people had to offer. And partially owing to critical darlings like Mad Men, vintage cocktail carts have since seen a resurgence and have even become a selling point in restaurants.
Bar carts not only boast tremendous utilitarian value but also introduce a fun, nostalgic dynamic to the layout of your space, be it in the bar area or elsewhere. In addition to showcasing your favorite bottles of rye and local small-batch gin — or juices and mocktail ingredients — there is an undeniable allure to stacking statement glassware, vintage martini cocktail shakers and Art Deco decanter sets atop your fully stocked mid-century modern bar cart. And one size or style doesn’t fit all — an evolution of cocktail cart design throughout history has yielded all manner of metal bar carts, rattan carts and more.
We invite you to add a few more dashes of class to cocktail hour — peruse the vast collection of antique and vintage carts and bar carts on 1stDibs today.