Quartz Crystal Martini Table

A slender column of antiqued brass and raw quartz crystal rises to support a glass top, the whole composition functioning less as furniture than as an objet at architectural scale. At twenty-five and a half inches tall and twelve inches square, the Martini Table occupies almost no footprint, yet commands the kind of attention typically reserved for sculpture. Stone and metal meet with the calibrated tension that defines John Richard's hand — the mineral roughness of crystal held against the warm, burnished restraint of antiqued metal. It is the piece one places beside a reading chair or at the end of a sofa precisely because it asks to be noticed.