Found in Avignon, this 19th-century French confiturier was made for one purpose: to hold the year's jams. In a country house, the lady of the house would spend late summer and early fall cooking down apricots, plums, figs, and quinces with sugar and honey, ladling them into glass jars, and locking them away in a cabinet just like this one to last through the winter. The diamond parquetry on the door is a classic Provence motif, made by setting wedges of oak in opposing grain so the pattern catches the light from any angle. Sylvie places it as a bar cabinet for a few good bottles and a stack of cocktail napkins, as a bedside in a guest room, or in a powder room with extra towels and soap stacked inside.
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