David Rockwell Designed a Bar Cart for the 21st Century

David Rockwell, the architect and designer behind upscale hotels such as the New York Edition and restaurants like Nobu and Gato, has released a limited-edition furniture line just in time for summer entertaining. The collection’s most striking piece, the Valet bar cart, is a modern update of an art deco design and features black steel handles, American walnut shelves, and brass casters and trim. A soft, full-grain saddle-leather pouch on the bottom shelf holds essential drink-making tools, and the handles are wrapped in thin strips of leather, the same technique Rockwell used on the staircase railing of Nobu Fifty Seven in Manhattan’s Midtown.

“I was inspired by classic, very simple leather bags,” he says. “I wanted the bar cart to feel luxurious to the touch—and the combination of hard and soft seemed counterintuitive and kind of beautiful.” $2,285; e-mail for information