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...stark Prostitute, Nagoya conjures up the seedier underbelly of the mid-century boom years. Later images - like the strange, wriggling creatures of Ruinous Garden, or the rusting steel of the series Scrapped Boat, Nagasaki - are more abstract and puzzling, as if mirroring the confusion and disillusionment that took hold when the boom turned to bust. Poised between the horrors of its past and the possibilities of its future, modern Japan has been a society in constant flux: there can be few more acute observers of this process than Shomei Tomatsu...
...garden is a natural source of springtime inspiration. This year designers as diverse as Dutch group Droog and the Danish Design Centre have taken greenery to a new level of sophistication, from a laser-cut umbrella resembling a tree canopy to a glazed vase shaped like large blades of grass. For those who like to bring the outdoors inside, there is a Smith & Hawken moss-covered bunny, and organic herbs that can be planted in the plastic-lined paper bag in which they come...
DESIGN TOUCHSTONE Seo's creations evoke a Zen-like simplicity, and he is resourceful, making chair covers out of old cashmere sweaters and picking rocks from his garden for dinner-party place cards. But it all looks sophisticated, and that is the rule. "If you don't have a stylish home, you're going to be disappointed," he says. "You won't care how green it is, because it's all about style...
...prizewinning Casse-Tête can be yours for $95,200. THE RETREAT www.retreathomes.co.uk You can't see the wheels or the chassis, but they're there. The Retreat is really an upscale trailer in disguise and does not require a building permit. You can plop it in your garden as a guesthouse, perhaps, or take it anywhere you would a mobile home. Hip features? Teak sink surrounds, oak plank flooring and optional hot tub. Prices start...
...Buckingham Palace are increasingly built around themes, like honoring transport workers and members of the emergency services after the London bombings of July 2005. She has aligned the palace with the modern world in other barely perceptible steps: relaxing the rules for the 30,000 invitees to her garden parties so that men needn't spend money on a morning suit, and chucking out the old rule that restricted state banquets to married apparent heterosexuals. Malcolm Ross, a kind of chief of protocol in the Lord Chamberlain's Office for 14 years, says the Queen takes a seriously pragmatic approach...