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humdrum by taking vintage silk pillows by John Robshaw, dismantling them and reusing the fabric as seat covers. A mid-century modern wooden room divider, an Arts & Crafts style chandelier, bare floors and minimal shades have a Shaker-like simplicity, all the while celebrating the best of Modernism. In room after room, Papachristidis repeatedly places circular wall hangings. In the master bedroom of his family's country house they appear as a Trinity, one silver, raised above and between two golden spheres; in the Provincetown living room in the form of a mid-century plastic white light above a cabinet; in a string of Rob Wynne's mirrored glass bubbles of varying size, following the wall of a circular staircase; in that Anish Kapoor sculpture in his sister's apartment; in the infinite number of Delft plates and round mirrors which he configures; in the Alex Liberman painting; in the Ryan McGinness painting above a fireplace; and even in the inverted halfspheres of an Ellsworth Kelly above yet another fireplace. These talismans, these spaces, appear as windows to a world beyond, not of the natural world but of that which results from the unity of grace and intellect, from divine vision. There is in Papachristidis' own apartment, aside from the mirrored sunburst, a remarkable spherical glass peace sign by Rob Wynne. It symbolizes the peace and HYLAND