Marble Column

Tall and carved in marble, a pedestal like this was made to carry a single beautiful thing, a fern, a vase, a bust, up where the eye would find it. It rises as a smooth classical column banded with turned rings, from a round stepped base to a round top. The French call a tall stand like this a sellette, meant not for sitting down to but for holding something worth looking at in a corner or beside a chair. Sylvie stands it in a corner with a trailing plant spilling over the top, or by a window with a vase of tall stems.