BH | Studio Westport Faceted Tall Cabinet

Shaped and faceted surfaces have dressed case furniture for centuries. Seventeenth-century chests were faced with raised geometric panels, and eighteenth-century cabinetmakers laid small squares of wood in parquetry patterns that caught the light at different angles. Texture on a cabinet front is an old pleasure, not a new idea.

This tall cabinet carries the same raised squares of wood grain over its pair of doors and its flanks, each block set at its own depth, so the surface ripples like a tiled wall. It holds as much as a small pantry on a narrow footprint: behind the doors sit six shelves in all, four of them movable, so tall jugs and low piles of napkins both fit. The doors open with a push and close softly rather than banging, the top is rated to hold 176 lbs, and the case stands on a recessed plinth. It needs some assembly.

Use it in a kitchen as a pantry for jars, tins and baking things, or in a dining room as a drinks cabinet with glasses inside and a tray of bottles and an ice bucket on top. In a bathroom or a hall it serves as a linen cupboard. Its height makes the most of a narrow wall, and the warm chestnut relief looks wonderful with terracotta tiles, cream plaster and a big jug of eucalyptus.