Thank you so much for bringing these trends and advances to those of us who cannot attend these delightful shows. I am especially interested in the technological advances in lighting and multi-purpose furniture. I hope greater detail about the Lutron lighting systems will be coming in another article. How do they work? How do the affect the colors in the room? How can we choose colors to work well with the system?

I am delighted to see patterns in full appreciation and guidance on combining multiple patterns. Patterns and mirrors are such blessings to the young in their first spaces... before they have accumulated a lifetime of photographs and quality paintings and sculptures. Even more welcome to me personally is the celebration of textures that come naturally through materials like stone, wood, rattan and wicker, and through materials like glass (including beveled, etched and frosted), pottery, anaglypta, and a myriad of metals and their finishes.