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Show . r HflwMagitoe,THE DAILY HERALD Pag 4 Friday, September Many looks of Africa mirrored in American homes By DYLAN LANDiS Universal Press Syndicate " '.- I -L- '.'''( ' ' ("aF Armand hand-carve- r ii 'I L el A.. George Rom photo Home of Carolyn Tyler, TV anchor in San Francisco, is filled with items from all over Africa, and a mixed- - media art work above the mantle by Joe Sam called "The Invisible Hunter." Blanket yourself in warm fleece By CONNIE CONING Chicago Tribune n in outdoor ric, is circles but recently began clothing appearing in home furnishings, such as throws, wine totes, baby blankets and sport blankets. The fabric is light weight, quick drying, machine washable and stain resistant. As a blanket, other pluses are that it doesn't pill or fade. The new blankets are available in 13 two-tocolor combinations. Suggested retail prices are $110 Twin, $150 fullqueen and well-know- With cold weather on the horizon, thoughts turn to keeping warm on those chilly and frosty nights. Dakotah, a leading manufactur- . er of home textile products, has introduced a new line of Polarfleece blankets for twin-- , beds. fullqueen- - and king-siz- e Polarfleece, Maiden Mills' fleece fab original double-face- d ne $170 king. Dakotah also introduced Polarfleece" duvet covers, pillow shams, decorative pillows and window treatments to coordinate with the new blankets. Prices for the other Polarfleece products range from $5 to $200. The new blankets are available at Marshall Field's and Carson Pirie Scott stores. For more information, call Dakotah at P 1 aw WES' TBR1BGE Presents " Vaulted Ceilings Conan Countertops 'Central 2.5 Baths Air PROVO' J Uuk w SERVICE J . 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FREE SERVICE CAUS PL, hnestTownkomes Prices -- EXPERIENCED FUUY INSURED jo' I ; Affordable Come visit our fully furnished model or call 374-- 1 500 24 3beooms (See AFRICA, Page 5) LOW COST WOSK GUARANTIED Luxury Townhomes At . 1 a 800-Dakot- - rovo s Annan, an artist, ishing mix of objects in a former pickle factory in New York. In the Annans' living room, you can collapse into a modern white sofa by Le Corbusier, gaze at portraits by Andy Warhol, and set your drink on or rather into a most unusual coffee table. It is a d stool with a seat scooped out like a shallow bowl, and legs proportioned like a young dog's. As a result, it looks perpetually edgy, ready to trot out of the room with your drink on its back. Like the carved figures that seem to jostle for space on the shelves, it comes from Africa. Why marry a humble wooden stool to a leather-and-stesofa? Because one or two elements of traditional African design can give any room a pleasurable jolt of life. Its four major ingredients natural materials, spiritual symbolcan be ism, pattern and color integrated into kitchens and baths, bedrooms and dining rooms, San Francisco and. apartments Washington, D.C., townhouses, all with equal grace. This powerful mix of styles is celebrated in "The Spirit of African Design" (Clarkson Potter, $35), by Philadelphia designers and stylists Shame Algotsson and Denys Davis, with text by Yanick Rice Lamb. Their timing could not have been better: African influences have been steadily seeping into American music, art and fashion, with tribal motifs being printed on everything from layettes to bomber jackets, sheets to evening gowns, wallpaper to plates. "African style has many faces," the authors write. "It can be traditional, classical, contemporary, bohemian, minimal, trendy iJ.i & 4fM ' P. lives with his family and an aston- or quirky." With about 900 ethnic groups across the continent, design traditions are so wildly diverse that collectors seem to make up the decorating rules as they go. In her Philadelphia living room, for example, Algotsson has tall, arched bookcases that touch the ceiling, and classical columns support her mantel. But jf you put your feet up, they will rest on a Senufo stool. And where one expects an English landscape painting above the sofa, Algotsson has set four Masai spears of iron and wood. (Many African objects are defined not by national borders, but by ethnic identity.) . No more is needed. In the presence of these cues, even her a wicker plainest furnishings porch-chai- r, a sisal rug suggest the textures and colors of savannah grasslands. Napoleon had similar ideas when, inspired by those North African time capsules, the pharaohs' tombs, he launched the first revival of Egyptian style. Suddenly F.uronean furniture was being embellished with sphinxes and scarabs. Campaign furniture, designed in Napoleon's honor, was inspired by folding seats and beds that the Egyptians placed in tombs so the dead could bring furniture into the afterlife. . . a T i wo cemunes later, wis mixed marriage of European and African design works just as well in the . American living room. The collectors in "The Spirit of African Design" paint West African textile motifs around their windows and doorways. They mix steely furniture by Mies van der Rohe with paintings by contemporary African artists. They hang the work, of Picasso and Matisse --- Sat p.m.--6 Noon-- 4 1 U3 p.m. p.m. iiii : i jj DOCTOR rrr : i st-- i I rsAVcTsAVcT l $15 i $25 i $50 un ant un urt ant i " wukk ant ffurw i wuhk |