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This is an expensive answer. For a good, traditional result...you're probably going to have to have it custom built. Modern production furniture construction techniques just aren't the same as even 20 years ago.

If you really love this and want to match it...you'll have to use an experienced reproduction cabinet maker, the same wood and a really knowledgeable finish artist to match the patina.

If that isn't in your plans what about finding a really great horizontal wall mounted solution that would float above Bubby's Buffet? They're available at every price from IKEA to WS Home. Even some of the lockers from yesterday's post would be groovy.

Good luck!

Scott's suggestion of a wall mount unit is brilliant! Otherwise you are going to spend a lot or money or time -- most likely both!!!

Check Pompanoosuc Mills--
http://www.pompy.com

If nothing works they will custom build you one. They built me a bed and I LOVE it.

K

You might try a NYC only search on Ebay. There are several sellers who regularly post that type of vingate furniture and it typically goes for much less than in a city shop.

How about building three floating shelves that mimic the lines of Bubby's piece and then staining them a color similar to the original piece - shouldn't be too expensive. I like the hanging shelf idea too. Rinners and Brandon has an ebay store that is worth looking at as well: http://stores.ebay.com/Rinners-and-Brandon-Furniture

Are you storing the dishes that are regularly used, or dishes that are special? for years I stored dishes that were 'special', while using crappy dishes for every day. Realizing I had no room and what was I saving the dishes for anyway, I started using them everyday and ditching the sh*t I had been using. Personally, I think anything stowed away behind glass is not being enjoyed by you. Just a thought from a clutterfreemiss who is getting rid of even more clutter these days...

I think a nice mirror above and dishes in the kitchen

OK, now that we have a picture, that helps, right? Here's the things that come to mind:

* There are some reproduction-ish things that are kind of in that antique-style at Bombay which might at least help flesh out the silhouette and function of what you've already got there. I'm not that crazy about too much of their stuff, but you might find something that kind of blends with that. But you'd better take measurements, and make a pattern of the shape of the top and bring photos with you, too.

*Home Decorators usually has stuff that's in that gear, but I just looked at their website, and I don't think they have anything just right at the moment. Their catalog may show more than their site, though.

*If you wanted to have something made, I like the idea of having the back be mirrored, because it would otherwise be too big of an expanse of wood showing, and would make it too obvious that it wasn't a dead-on match for the bottom. Also the mirror would give you more light inside it. But I would really want to see the shelves in it be a very similar flattened-back-ellipse shape to what the top of that piese is, and I wouldn't mind seeing it float above what you have, and just be attached to the wall. Especially if your wall was painted a fairly dark color. I would also make yourself VERY familiar with all the little decorative motifs that are going on in what you have there, so you could try to find something there that you select a pre-made molding to match it with from something like the Van Dyke's Restoration catalog or that other one (one of those has an online presence and the other one doesn't). You know... like either an egg-and-dart motif, or something that looks like beads. Something that can echoed from the old piece to the new one somehow. There are kind of a lot of pre-made moldings, etc., out there, and if you measure right, etc., and if you have a good carpenter, you could design something that would complement it nicely.