Style -- Laced Up
Lacy looks create serious sophistication
by Tracy Bulla -- Home Accents Today, 4/1/2006
Spring fashions abound with lace-inspired designs, smoothly segueing into elegantly luxe looks for the home. Feminine without being overly frilly, lacy looks create serious sophistication via clever, and often ornate, application. In this ode to ornament, more is definitely more.
All prices are suggested retail.
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From Martha Stewart Signature with Bernhardt, the Moonbow bookcase highlights lacquered fretwork in a unique lacelike design ($1,100). eLink 703 |
| Sumptuous patterning borrows from antique lace in Arteriors Home's elegant table lamp. eLink 511 |
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Oscar de la Renta, Spring '06 |
| Lace screenprinting tops Worlds Away's antique mirrored table with an opaline glow ($400). eLink 700 |
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A super-lacy damask print endows a new classic feel to Haute House's armchair, finished with feminine furbelows like buckles and bows. eLink 704 |
| Trendy layers of lace add a hip fashion twist to Soleil de Provence's stemless wine glasses. eLink 706 |
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Oscar de la Renta, Spring '06 |
| Fine Art Inc.'s black and white print enhances the fragile and inherently lacy appeal of the male fern ($199). eLink 705 |
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Delicate curves and swirls lend an ethereal appearance to Atrium Foliage's greenery arrangement in modern wave vase ($299). eLink 539 |
| A lace-print overlay ups the luxe factor on Alexandre Turpault's exquisitely detailed bedding ($35 to $320). eLink 702 |
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Oscar de la Renta, Spring '06 |
| Barclay Butera's Lace Floral pillow updates a traditional print in of-the-moment black and white, showcased on block-printed linen ($434). eLink 607 |
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Distinctively packaged with ornate scrollwork and Gibson Girl prints, Incense & Sensibility's incense, aromatherapy creams and herbal remedies pay tribute to a more genteel era ($11 to $19). eLink 701 |
