Up in the French Alps a piece like this was built to last several lifetimes in a cold stone house, made by someone who farmed in summer and worked wood through the winter. Found in Béziers, it dates to the 19th century, two small carved doors up top above open shelves edged in a scalloped apron, the whole thing standing on long plank legs with carved feet. Everything about it shows the hand that made it, the planks sawn rough and left unfinished on the back, the iron hinges hammered out by hand, and the flowers on the doors drawn with a compass and cut with a gouge the way Alpine carvers had done for generations. Sylvie set it against the kitchen wall and filled the open shelves with everyday plates, keeping the two little doors for the things she would rather not explain.
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