A hallway of closets, like a temple passageway, irregular,
winding, encapsulates the duality of the apartment, for
it leads to a contemporary abstract figurative painting
from the intricate Himalayan artistic imagery of the rug in
the foreground. Bookends: symbolic of the fascination
the two cultures in confrontation and in harmony hold
for one another. This apartment does not pretend to be
authentically Himalayan; rather it is an intentionally more
cosmopolitan and glittering rendition of certain timehonored conventions of color and form. H
HYLAND
