Tabletop Sculpture · Antique Brass · Standing Figure with Bowl

She Chose Sage. She Always Chooses Sage. She Has Impeccable Taste & a Very Good Jacket.

The fox who presides from her pedestal bust — spectacles, ceremonial robe, absolute authority — has a standing counterpart. Younger, perhaps. Lighter on her feet. Same ears, same sharp intelligence in the set of her face, but here she has traded the robes for a jacket with a small gathered apron, stood herself upright on both feet, and filled her arms with a bowl of pale, frost-tipped globe thistles in the most considered shade of sage-white you have ever seen. She did not choose the blue ones. She did not choose the pink. She chose these, and she was right.

Gathered on a dining table with the stag and the hare — blush globe amaranth, dusty violet thistles, sage seedheads, all held forward in antique brass bowls — they become something that transcends décor entirely. They become a household. A gathering. A table that looks like the kind of home people want to be invited to, set by someone who understands that the most memorable rooms are the ones where everything has been chosen by someone who genuinely cared. Someone very much like you.

Cast in richly aged antique brass with the same craft that runs through every piece in this collection — the texture of her fur, the detail of her jacket pocket, the careful join of hoof to boot — she is the third piece that completes the standing trio. Individually, each character is entirely sufficient. Together, they are the kind of thing that takes a home from beautiful to unforgettable.