Grey Box With Stone, Quartz

A considered object that occupies the desk or console with quiet authority, this John Richard composition pairs the cool, geological weight of stone and quartz with the warm luminosity of gold leaf and brass. The proportions — measured at six inches in height against a generous ten-and-a-half-inch width — suggest something between sculpture and vessel, neither purely decorative nor entirely functional. Its restrained palette of mineral grey against burnished gold speaks to the tension between the raw and the refined that defines the most enduring objects in a well-appointed interior.