Decorative Accents Home & Accessories

The last layer of a room is always small. Decorative accents are the bowls, boxes, vessels, trays, candlesticks, sculptural fragments and stands that finish a home, in brass, bronze, carved wood, stone, horn, lacquer and glass. Their making traditions run through China, Japan, India, Indonesia, the Middle East, Europe, Africa and the Americas. Grouped on a console, set alone on a stone mantel or spaced along steel shelving, these small objects set the rhythm of a room and lead the eye from one surface to the next. A good bowl does more than hold things.