EXOTIC DECOR ADDS UNEXPECTED SPICE.Byline: Barbara Mayer Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. Like exotic spices from faraway places The Faraway Places is an indie rock band. Originally formed in Boston, Massachusetts as Solar Saturday, they changed their name after moving to Los Angeles, California. , unusual foreign accessories and fabric designs lend piquancy to decor. Unlike much decorating based on uniformity of style, the essence of working with exotic items is to make unexpected alliances. Designer Stanley Hura combines African masks and sculptures, Japanese black Japanese black breed of cattle developed by crossing one of the indigenous breeds of Japanese cattle with European cattle. Black, horned (some polled), small, fine-boned; used principally for meat, some draft, occasionally milk. Similar breeds are Japanese brown, Japanese polled. lacquer lacquer, solution of film-forming materials, natural or synthetic, usually applied as an ornamental or protective coating. Quick-drying synthetic lacquers are used to coat automobiles, furniture, textiles, paper, and metalware. utensils and contemporary and traditional furniture in his New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of apartment. He says that adding elements from other cultures had added interest to his understated furnishing scheme. Some other combinations that Hura has found to work well are Shaker furniture and African artifacts artifacts see specimen artifacts. , formal 18th-century English furniture and blue and white throws from India, and 19th-century Regency furniture and Japanese lacquer ware. Working successfully with unusual crafts and other items is basically done by trial and error. ``You have to play with the elements, trying this or that, then standing back to see if it works,'' Hura said. Look for a unifying principle when displaying a group of items, as Hura did when he used the Japanese lacquer ware in his kitchen. The common denominator in this case was the material. Other unifying principles include color (all items in blue), form (all items round), and category (all teapots, or toy cars or shells). When displaying items in groups, place them together, varying heights, rather than scattering them about all over. Flat items such as masks or framed textiles can be hung on the wall. Single objects can be placed on individual wall-mounted display shelves. |
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