Urban Oriental
Tracy Bulla -- Home Accents Today, 4/1/2007
Luxurious living, albeit in a modernist vein, forms the foundation for designs built sleek and spare. Inspired by the world's tallest building, Taipei 101, the sensibility is imposing, austere and impossibly chic. Graphic patterns, and equally graphic neutrals, create a vision that needs little in the way of adornment, only perfect order and a structure of steel.
All prices are suggested retail
The details
| Plush Living's Black Label Collection convincingly references a cosmopolitan trio with the Florence duvet, Athens sheet set and Paris coverlet and shams ($54 to $168). |  |
Selamat's leather loveseat blends posh and pristine elements for sleek seating.
Utilitarian and streamlined, thick metal covers the urbane Minsk coffee table from Moe's Home Collection.
Brushed nickel creates the base for Nova's seven-light pendant, dripping with beads in an urban waterfall ($599).
Bold hardware details the chic Studly cabinet from Worlds Away.
Roberta Schilling Collection's dramatic four-arm candelabra bears a coating of oyster shells collected from Brazilian beaches ($373).
Part of the Liz Claiborne Home Collection from Nourison, a subtle teal-hued rug evokes modern simplicity with a spare use of florals ($1,199, 6×9).
Sculptured blooms reveal a sexy, not frilly sensibility in Sabine Kleiren's oil on canvas for Accents by Design.
Graphic hand-painted patterns skillfully combine primitive and modern aesthetics in Arte Italica's large bowl, crafted using ancient Italian pottery techniques ($439).
