From a grand home in Portugal, this 19th-century pedestal was made to do one thing, lift something worth looking at up to eye level. Tall and tapering on a stepped base, it would have stood in a hall or a corner of the salon holding a marble bust, a bronze, or a great vase of flowers, raising whatever it carried above the furniture so the eye went to it first. Pieces like this were how a grand house gave importance to a single object, a small stage built into the room. Sylvie stands it in a corner with a big loose arrangement of branches, or a single sculptural thing that earns the height.
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