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All-AmericanFurniture inspired by a lesser-known legend

BeguilingThe design world’s latest obsession: painterly prints

CheekyCameos get an eccentric, playful edge

Amedeo Scognamiglio’s fresh take on traditional cameos—a craft his family has practiced since the 1800s—gives diamonds, topazes, and carved shells an irreverent, enchanting sense of fun. $2,000 each, amedeonyc.com.

The smile-inducing fabrics by London-based Bernard Thorp are hard to resist. Since each is made to order (with a five-meter minimum), custom colored, and hand screened by master artisans, we think they’re pretty hard to beat, too. From $134 per meter, bernardthorp.co.uk.

As chairman of Parsons School of Design in the 1940s and ’50s, and later as the design direc-tor at Tiffany & Co., Van Day Truex was a giant of American design and a friend to the likes of Billy Baldwin and Albert Hadley. Truex American Furniture capitalizes on his legacy to reissue forms by people in his circle— Baldwin, Frances Elkins, Charles James—for pieces that practically glow with soigné mid-century allure. To the trade, truexstyle.com.

Clockwise from top: Pagoda table, Spider chair, Heptagonal ottoman, and Dominique sofa (named after arts patron Dominique de Menil, left).

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EmbellishAutumn forecast: Go gaga for a sparkling detail

DivineGroundbreaking American art on exhibit this fall

Two major American painters get star billing in upcoming surveys. On September 20, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston will host Mark Rothko: A Retrospective (through January 24, 2016, mfah.org), offering a comprehensive look at the luminous and haunting work of the seminal Abstract Expressionist, including No. 9 (below). In New York, the Whitney Museum continues an inaugural year in its new Renzo Piano–designed headquar-ters with Frank Stella (October 30–February 7, 2016, whitney.org), a soup-to-nuts review of the liv-ing legend that will also bring together rarely shown reliefs, maquettes, sculptures, and drawings.

Celine Ombré Ball fringe; to the trade, samuelandsons.com.

Precious Metals brush fringe; to the trade, jimthompsonfabrics.com.

Loro Piana Pompon; to the trade, 212-593-9663.

The Languedoc Collection comprises the namesake vase (near right and center), designed by René Lalique in 1929 to resem-ble a cactus, and the new Cynara (far right)— colorful crystal vessels that will complement any space. From $1,175, lalique.com.

Drip Eyelash tape; to the trade, decordeparis.com.

FreshSurprisingly modern shapes from Lalique

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