Beautiful Monitors?

the WAF as a medium factor for me. of all we looked at the biggest WAF for the money was the ERA models in African Rosewood. Veneer look about an inch deep. Looked at everything in the portland oregon metro area (maybe 20 brands or more) and none looked as nice, including much more expensive models. Online the above mention of the salks resonates as well. they look good. google era and on some of the reviews the Rosewood veneer is shown. nice.
No offense to anyone but the sonus fabers were not in the same class. plus is the sound is very good.

bravo speakers

My wife loves the looks of my Harbeth monitor 30s above all other speakers I've ever shown her for the very reason that they look like what they are meant to be. A classic and clean lined box speaker instead of trying to look like something its not such as sculpture or a coffin.

Then Focal 1007 Be is very attractive in any finish

Rosso Fiorentino Fiesole, with the optional Murata supertweeter (that does NOT sit on top but is stylishly integrated, of course) it does exceed your $4k limit, unfortunately. Without the supertweeter, it should be in the range $3.5k (new)
http://www.rfspeakers.it/eng/fiesole.asp
(don't forget to click "colours")

Heard these speakers once at a fair in an environment that made it impossible to give a well-founded judgement, but they made a fine impression nevertheless.