Palma Two-Drawer Chest

The Palma Two-Drawer Chest by John Richard commands a room through the quiet authority of its proportions — thirty-six inches of considered height against a generous forty-eight-inch span, the whole rendered in black walnut and dressed in a Tiza Gesso finish that gives the form an almost fresco-like gravity. Gold leaf punctuates the composition with characteristic restraint, its luminosity playing against the matte ground in the manner of a well-placed highlight in an architectural drawing. Agate stone surfaces complete the dialogue between the organic and the refined, each piece of stone introducing an irreproducible pattern that no two clients will ever share.