Arts & Crafts Night Stand —  after Harvey Ellis

This night stand is further proof, if any is necessary, that once you know the syntax and vocabulary of a language, there's no limit to the ideas you can express.

In terms of utility, it offers a large, functional area for the bed time reading, your glasses, a glass of water, and the Dreaded Alarm Clock.

The generous drawer is a convenient place to store things which are used less frequently.

But all the utility in the world is less than ideal if it's ugly. Arts & Crafts designs are largely unadorned by frivolous decoration. But by celebrating the very way each piece is made, there is decoration enough. Like hand-cut dovetail joints on the drawer.

And there is nothing more beautiful than fumed and finished quarter sawn white oak. Unless it's the very first smile of your first-born