Benjamin Ripple Bedside - Snowgum

The Benjamin Ripple Bedside in Snowgum has two drawers faced with a ripple motif and a matching snowgum button handle. The case stands 390mm on legs of 160mm, measuring 55cm wide, 45cm deep and 55cm high. It arrives fully assembled.

Snowgum is a pale greyed timber tone named after a tree that actually looks like this, which is more than most finish names manage. Against white bedding it recedes almost completely; against a coloured wall it holds its own without competing.

The ripple is worth understanding as a texture rather than a pattern. Cut into the drawer fronts, it catches whatever light is in the room, usually one lamp, and gives the piece something to do at the moment you actually see it. On a pale finish that effect is subtle, all shadow and no contrast. Two drawers rather than one lets you separate the things you want immediately from the things you want out of sight, and the solid ash frame is the part carrying the weight.