In a château in the Loire this would have stood in the entrance hall, the first thing a guest saw on arriving and the last on the way out. Found in Villeneuve-lès-Avignon, the console dates to the 19th century, a slab of marble set over an iron base worked into arches, scrolls, and fleur-de-lis. The Loire valley has been lined with châteaux since the kings kept their courts there, and a hall console like this one held what a household set down and picked up in passing, the calling cards and the keys and the candlestick carried up to bed. Sylvie keeps it in the living room with the marble left bare and a single stem of peonies on top, the same work it has always done, only now in a smaller house.
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