Sakana Sideboard

The Sakana Sideboard by John Richard commands a room through the quiet authority of its proportions — sixty-eight inches of considered horizontal presence grounded in oak and steel, finished in a layered confluence of Tiza Gesso, chalked grey, and silver leaf that reads as both ancient and thoroughly contemporary. Its shallow eighteen-inch depth allows the piece to inhabit a wall with the composed restraint of a work of art, the silvered surfaces shifting with the light in the manner of a canvas rather than a cabinet. This is furniture conceived at the intersection of sculpture and function, where the making of a beautiful object and the demands of a well-ordered interior are understood to be one and the same.