A bow-saw trestle brace, a woodcutter’s detail rather than a cabinetmaker’s, with a single drawer hung beneath the plank top.

From the garden, a wild rose climbs the stone wall to the cracked library window. Its tentacles dare to reach inside the Poet’s haven.

Constructed by hand in hardwood, finished dark in a low-VOC water-based stain, sealed and waxed, the edges heavily sanded to a two-tone. Sits well with the Wave Chair or the Allusion Stool. Variations in natural wood grain and color are to be expected.