KILLER BAR STOOLS

Painter Anita Rosenberg recently hired a feng shui expert to roam around her L.A. studio and get the artist and her bright, whimsical paintings and woodwork into some good alignment. Next to a desk, the expert plopped a Buddha inside one of the designer’s red-and-green sculptures for “increased flow of prosperity,” Rosenberg explains. “You know, money.”

After directing the cult film “Assault of the Killer Bimbos” in 1988, Rosenberg, who went to NYU film school with pal Spike Lee, felt she needed an outlet for her creative talents other than “taking phone calls, going to lunch and pretending to be a studio exec.” Inspired by both New York graffiti and New Orleans folk artists, she painted wood home furnishings that caught the eye of a buyer from Universal Studios, who asked her to make some cartoon frames for the “Flintstones” merchandising campaign. The line sold well for Universal, prompting Rosenberg to expand.

Her sometimes-whacked paintings, frames, mirrors, candlesticks, lamps, tables and bar stools are now in some lofty places, including the homes of George Clooney, Jennifer Aniston, John Travolta, Tom Cruise and Elizabeth Taylor. A friend of Arnold Schwarzenegger gave the actor one of Rosenberg’s frames, laced with edelweiss cutouts, for a photograph of the actor in lederhosen. The shops carrying her stuff include Fred Segal Melrose, Night Stand And . . . on Larchmont Boulevard and Schatzi on Main in Santa Monica. And, yes, they have shown up on the sets of “Veronica’s Closet,” “Friends” and “Suddenly Susan.”

“I suppose it goes against Hollywood wisdom to paint tables and think you’ll make the next big film,” remarks Rosenberg, 41. “But then again, maybe not.”