Plush elegance describes the Zoe Walnut Jewelry Chest from Mele. This lovely walnut-finished design has a key lock a scalloped lid with a mirror one spacious drawer one four-sectioned tray and one ring roll. An elegant cocoa sueded-touch lining flows throughout the enclosures.About Mele Jewelry BoxesEmidio Mele an Italian immigrant to the United States came to New York City in 1896 and learned to make jewelry boxes as an apprentice before founding Mele Manufacturing in 1912. He began by designin g and building elegant displays for jewelry store windows. His jewelry box making business grew throughout the 1900s responding to demands for boxes to hold Purple Hearts during WWII and developing as a popular household name for quality jewelry boxe s. Today Mele Jewelry Box is known as the Mele Companies which encompasses various divisions under the Mele name. Now based in Utica N.Y. Mele still upholds the family atmosphere on which it was founded and remains America`s foremost name in jewelry cases