Found in Avignon and originally from a grand estate outside Lyon, this 1930s French commode shows the influence of Art Deco on country furniture. The legs are tapered, the drawer fronts plain, the lines spare and architectural. The wood has been bleached to a soft pale honey, the way so many French country pieces were stripped in the 20th century. The hardware is the magic: six round knobs and three rosette-shaped escutcheons in deep verdigris green, the patina that comes from a century of oxidizing copper and can never be brought back. Sylvie places it in a bedroom where the morning light hits the green hardware first.
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