BH | Studio Kirkby 2-Drawer Faux Marble Nightstand

Faceted, pointed panels have a long history in European design. In Ferrara at the close of the fifteenth century, a palace was faced in thousands of marble blocks cut into pyramids, and seventeenth-century English joiners built up the fronts of oak chests with raised geometric mouldings that caught the light in much the same way. The bold furniture of the late 1960s and 1970s took up the faceted panel again, and it has kept its sense of drama ever since.

Two wide drawers make up the front, each cut into a row of raised, pointed panels that throw light and shadow across the case, with the same faceting carried around the sides. Black faceted knobs sit two to a drawer. A pale marble-look top sets off the case below, in Chestnut, Almond, Alabaster or Willow, and at 20 inches tall it sits level with a standard mattress. Both drawers run on full-length runners, a recessed plinth lifts the case, and the top is rated to 66 lbs. Assembly is required.

Beside the bed it holds the lamp, phone, glasses and the book you are halfway through, with chargers, hand cream and night things tucked in the drawers. The case and pale stone make a pairing that leans Seventies: put it beside a cream bouclé headboard with a glass mushroom lamp and a tobacco-coloured throw. It also works as an end table by a reading chair. This listing is for one nightstand.