Michael Aram Butterfly Ginkgo Easel Frame darren_google_jr the doors and steel base

the doors and steel base frame are finished in old gold

foxed mirror panels cover this four-door credenza finished in Parisian silver

A hand-applied metal leaf butterfly is presented on watercolor paper with a deckle edge

fitted with soft-closing

There is something very poetic about the idea of the ginkgo leaves metamorphosing into butterflies which land back on the branches that bore them

Michael Aram Butterfly Ginkgo Easel Frame darren_google_jr the doors and steel baseThe Butterfly Ginkgo Collection celebrates the representation of flora as fauna. Michael's fascination with a particular type of ginkgo tree, the Ginkgo Biloba, or "Butterfly Ginkgo", which grows with a double leaf reminiscent of a butterfly's wings, gave rise to a fantasia image of the plant. Executed at the highest level of handcraftsmanship, each piece is rendered in solid brass with hand etched cocoon shaped vessels. The pieces in the collection