well, not really. but it was fun to see in this month’s elle decor “little league” feature on stylish children’s spaces an idea that the always-genius selena mcadams came up with for a lovely young client’s room a while ago. here is one of a pair of chests from grandmother’s attic that we did over in benjamin moore’s berry wine (#2003.30) with a bulletproof (or at least diet coke-proof) high gloss topcoat — and of course, a little gilding on the hardware:



and here is the snip from elle decor, showing at the far left the ”chippendale-style vintage highboy…boldly lacquered acid-green”, another similar piece shown in the most recent ny times T section (by cote france) and one more from creazioni at the conran shop:

anyway, you get the idea.