Primitive-Modern, Black and White Painted Old Handmade Stool snake in box with a little dryness to

with a little dryness to the wood

There is a pencil note dating it to 1870 on the 3rd inside page

This pair of agate and 14K gold cufflinks certainly feeds that vision

though perhaps the squares are another shade deeper—and a salmony pink for the alternating squares

I love the history of gestures and body language as a vocabulary

Primitive-Modern, Black and White Painted Old Handmade Stool snake in box with a little dryness toYou know I love stools with character, which make ideal pedestals for other things as well as being sculptures of sorts in and of themselves, and I really love the old black and white paint job on this one, which gives the primitive stool a sense of modernist aspirations. Well used but very study and sound, with a second piece of wood on the interior of the sides for extra strength. Well used, with wear to the black paint on the top, particularly, but