I've been questing after a dresser. For a damn long time. I spent an entire Saturday walking around the West 20s, poking my head in all the furniture shops. I combed flea markets. I looked at brand new stuff. I looked at old stuff. I looked in catalogs, I tried Froogle, and I scoured Craiglist.

When I was walking down Greenwich between Seventh and Sixth, on my way back from a haircut after work, I passed two furniture stores. One of them, Old Good Things, had the dresser I'd been looking for.

Tiger oak, quarter-cut, with locks and scrolled top drawers. Perfect.

And it was a few hundred yards from my house all this time.




Closer up on the grain of the tiger oak.

The scrolled top drawer of the tiger oak dresser.

The backs are in pretty good shape.

Both have dovetailed joins on the drawers.

Flat-cut oak. Original metal pulls.

Tiger oak. Scrolled top drawers. Wooden pulls.