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The decorative tradition of Tibetan Buddhism is based, above all, on the contrast of vivid colors and their vibrations: saffron orange and lapis blue constitute the chief polarity around which slightly less intense colors--green, rose, turquoise—circulate. Tibetan design is not the subdued tradition of age and wear dear to the Japanese notion of wabi sabi, but a summoning, through assertive color, of all the powers of the universe. Color is a means to collect energy in an interior, whether in a majestic temple or a small domestic room. Sam Botero has worked his own version of Tibetan color magic in this Manhattan apartment. The staircase, with a railing carved with long swirls and curves, seems a part of ancient Buddhist iconography, so enamored of stylized clouds and currents. Each step is covered in a shade of green less and less emphatic as you ascend, implying passage from green meadows to HYLAND

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