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Unless it's used for primping, a mirror looks best when it reflects the light from a window. The drawing serves as a transition from the large-scale gilded frame to the smaller sculptural containers and lamp.

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Relax--your home is not a museum. Art looks great when it leans against the wall or overlaps other works. Here, it only took three objects to form an engaging juxtaposition of form, ornament, and scale on top of an antique secretary. The modern pharmacy lamp, an informal contrast to the serious antiques, leads the eye from what's on the desktop to the objects above.