Living Etc. is one of our favorite treats from the bookstore. To tide us over between issues, we check through their online photo archives regularly - here are five ideas for modern ways to decorate with traditional ornaments...
(and naturally anything looks better next to an orange Saarinen chair)
All photos: Living Etc.
The Ultimate Used Furniture Cleaning Kit
Ana Creates a Community at Home
Good Food to Share 
The Big Book of Small, Cool Spaces 
Apartment Therapy Presents 
The Eight-Step Home Cure 
Z2 iPod Dock and Wi...
Soda Recipe: Homemade Ginger Ale
Recipe: Spring Fruit and Nut Tabouli
the branch thing is simply awful!
Wow, that's a whole lot of ugly!
. . . the branch, I mean.
Really? I like the branch. It is my favorite idea from the group.
I think the branch could work with a different arrangement... maybe clear glass, frosted white, and silvery ornaments as opposed to the red, blue and yellow primary colors.
I like the branch concept, but not the particular shape of this one. Unfortunately, the first thing I thought of was the witch from Wizard of Oz riding on it. Also the branch also seems aimed to do something evil to the unlucky person at the head of that table.
Though I LOVE all the unmatched chairs painted the same color. Very clever.
I actually like the branch as an idea, though not this branch and not those ornaments...though I live in fear that it will come crashing down during dinner and club someone in the head.