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"Discoveries by Designers\nArchitectural Digest's Editors Present Designers' Sources\nShali, in lapis, is a John Robshaw design at John Rosselli (212-593-2060). Printed in India on linen, it also comes in coral on cotton and linen and in ivory on cotton voile.\nLeonard Barton, owner of Bravura Art and Objects Gallery in Southampton, New York, offers an early-20th-century ceremonial carved wood boat, $3,500, by the Yami people of Botel Tobago. It's decorated with a circular motif called mata no tatara, or eyes of the canoe, and with figures representing Magamoag, an ancestor said to have taught the Yami boatbuilding and agriculture. Bravura Art and Objects Gallery, 631-377-3355 www.bravurastyle.com\nThe vibrant polychrome decoration on an 1822 Tyrolean cabinet, $11,800, at San Francisco's Ed Hardy (www.edhardysf.com; 415-626-6300), features images of architecture, birds and flowers and lightens the piece, which is more than five feet tall.\nSince at least the 14th century, Westerners have co-opted Asian motifs in their designs for decorative arts. A pair of generously scaled 1940s lacquered chinoiserie chairs, $1,450, at Hollywood &amp;amp; Vine, a dealer at The Antiques &amp;amp; Artisan Center in Stamford, Connecticut, are a part of that tradition, even as they project a modern presence. Hollywood &amp;amp; Vine, 69 Jefferson St., Stamford, CT 06902 203-327-6022; www.stamfordantiques.com\nJust five and a half inches tall, an unusual circa 1880 French carriage timepiece, $960, in polished brass at Roderick Antique Clocks in London (www.roderickantiqueclocks.com; 44-20-7937-8517), was intended for travel.\nRelaxing in an early-1970s metal hanging chair, $2,400, that measures over six feet tall, at Red Modern (www.redmodernfurniture.com; 602-256-9620) in Phoenix, has led more than one sitter to liken the experience to floating.\nA chaise longue, $1,650, part of a suite of shapely 1970s fiberglass pool furniture, can be found at Boston's Machine Age (www.machine-age.com; 617-464-0099). The shop also has three chairs for $1,250 each; a side table is $750.\nConceived by Piero Fornasetti and Gio Ponti in the 1950s, a malachite-covered trumeau-bar has been reissued by Fornasetti. It can be ordered from Minima Design (www.minimadesign.com; 64-021-917-225) in Auckland, New Zealand, for $22,000.\nThe offbeat offerings at Obsolete (www.obsoleteinc.com; 310-399-0024), of Venice, California, include a circa 1875 English mahogany birdcage, $19,500, in the Anglo-Indian style, which was once in the hands of a German museum.\nForever Africa, a woven design of animals from the continent, is at S. Harris (800-999-5600). It's complemented by Exotic Croc, which is in nugget (inset), pink quartz and silver gray.\nForm and function mesh perfectly in a set of three gold-plated copper 19th-century American lightning rods, $350, in the shape of lightning bolts at Zena Kruzick Tribal Art (www.zkta.com; 510-236-6848) in Richmond, California.\nA new damask is at the recently expanded New York showroom of Quadrille (212-753-2995). Villa Emo comes in flame (shown), avorio, lagoon blue, verde, ocean and lavender."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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