Paul Rand designs Orientalia is a many splendored thing. Just like the world of Suzie Wong according to Eero Saarinen recontextualizes circa Man in the Gray Flannel Suit chic as postminimalist object or decor.
Here twin curved Herman Miller plywood chairs, one painted porcelain blue, the other trimmed lacquered red sit beneath oblong Barnett Newmanesque tryptychs framed in blond bamboo. And latticed screen panels painted faux Bauhaus accordion sumi-e patterned wallpapered walls. Embroidered silk curtains decorate bare aluminum casement windows while tasseled Chinese lanterns emit tinted light through Mondrian-colored glass. It becomes a new floating world where styles hybridize the yin and yang into acculturated Modernism.