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...by decorating their homes with foliage, and scattering roast beans at home, shrines and temples to ward off evil spirits and attract prosperity....
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...In the powder blue 1830s drawing room exhibit, holly was neatly tucked behind the gilt frames of modest paintings....
...I attempted to replicate Lack’s research, painting a couple of hen’s eggs with robin livery and attaching cardboard wings and tails. “I hope you aren’t proposing to put those on the Christmas tree?”...
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...So what made Kime, whose style remained more or less unchanged during a decorating career that took off in the 1970s, so popular with today’s new wave of designers and dealers?...
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