The looks of 2008

Myung Chun / Los Angeles Times

For 2008, theres a fresh breeze from the east: Shanghai modern is all over the design scene, with such items as, from top, ceramic Foo dogs from West Elm, in stores only; a needlepoint pillow from Williams-Sonoma Home, www.wshome.com; a blue plastic Buddha bank from Zero Minus Plus at Fred Segal in Santa Monica, www.zerominusplus.com; and a Chinese puppet head on a museum mount from H.D. Buttercup in Culver City.

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Myung Chun / Los Angeles Times

Whimsy lives in the enchanted forest theme: from left, illustrator Tim Biskups Gama-Go mushroom character pillow is from Yolk in Silver Lake, yolk-la.com. The yellow ceramic squirrel nut dish, squirrel lamp with green shade and orange fawn coin bank are from Urban Outfitters, www.urbanoutfitters.com. The new black version of Attila from Starcks Gnomes series is at Kartell in Los Angeles, www.kartell.com. The Hear No Evil ceramic planter by DF Casa is perched on bisque porcelain logs by KleinReid; both are from Show in Los Feliz, www.showlifestyle.com.

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