Furniture can hold feeling before anyone uses it.
Functional sculpture is Sonnetta's name for pieces that earn their place twice: first through use, then through presence. A sideboard still stores. A stool still supports. A small marble object still rests on a surface. But each one also changes the atmosphere of the room before anything is added around it.
These are not statement pieces in the loud sense. They are the objects that make other decisions simpler. The room becomes calmer because one thing has enough character, material, and proportion to hold the center.
