Showcase Cabinet with Bun Feet

Every Indian household keeps a category of possessions that are too good to use, the tea set that appears twice a year, the cut glass bowls, the trophies, the china somebody brought back from somewhere and for all of it there has always been one piece of furniture, the little glass showcase. Things go behind its doors to be seen and not touched, safe from dust, safe from children, on permanent respectful display. This is that cabinet, made properly.

The build is simple and all the better for it. A compact case in deep, dark polished timber, two framed glass doors meeting at the middle on turned wooden knobs, visible hinges doing their work honestly and the whole thing standing on four small bun feet that lift it off the surface it sits on. No carving anywhere, the drama is in the depth of the polish and in whatever you put behind the glass, which is precisely how a showcase should behave, the frame stays quiet so the contents can speak.

For the good tea set that deserves to be visible between its two annual outings, the collector of small things, or the corner of furniture that has been waiting for something to sit on top of it. Put the untouchables behind glass, where they have always belonged.