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Curly Maple Dresser with Lotus Carvings, Mirror and Gallery Western Montana

This dresser is part of a suite of furniture created for a client who is a practicing Buddhist. While she needed basic furnishings, she wanted them to reflect her spiritual life and create an environment conducive to daily meditation.

This dresser compliments several other pieces in its use of the lotus blossom as a unifying symbol and ornamental motif, while the sinuous lines of the Art Nouveau style provide the form of the structure. The lower case is divided into a central section that curves forward with three graduated drawers, flanked on either side with paneled compartments with concave doors. This undulating line is retained in the perimeter of the dresser top, which itself supports a gallery with three small drawers. A frame and mirror rise above this gallery, carved with mortarboard shelves on either side. The lower bracing of the mirror unifies the upper and lower elements of this dresser, and reach upward and outward into the brackets of the shelves.

Carved lotus blossoms serve as handles for every drawer and door.