Régence Commode in Black — Early 18th Century
Régence Commode in Matte Black with Faux Rouge Griotte Top
Dark. Dramatic. Three hundred years in the making.
Born in the early 18th century, during the Régence (that brief, giddy interlude between Louis XIV's pomp and Louis XV's frills), this walnut and oak commode has since slipped into our modern age: a matte black finish, worn just enough at the edges to let the warm wood underneath peek through.
And the top? Not marble at all, but painted to look just like rouge griotte, the cherry-red Belgian marble that French kings couldn't get enough of. A trompe-l'œil with impeccable manners.
The details are where the real gossip lives. Five drawers sit in three rows behind a gently bowed front that curves like a perfectly timed raised eyebrow, each one framed in molded panels that set off the bronze rocaille handles. The locks and keyholes are original too, though the keys went missing somewhere along the last three centuries (we suspect a lovers' quarrel). It's dressed from every angle, with chapel-paneled sides, rounded and fluted front uprights and a shapely scalloped apron. Underneath it all, oak drawer bottoms and a molded top finished in wax and shellac prove it was built for centuries, not seasons.
Place it in your entrance hall beneath a grand gilded mirror, or let it anchor a bedroom with a stack of art books. Either way, it will quietly steal the scene: because black is never just black. Not when it's three centuries old.
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