Anaheim Show Puts the Spotlight on Trends in the Home and Garden

With 1,300 exhibit booths and three stages featuring seminars and workshops, Homeworld 2000 bills itself as the “largest three-day home and garden show in California.” Actually, the show, Friday through Sunday at the Anaheim Convention Center, is more like a five-ring home-improvement circus. It includes a decorating and remodeling show, landscaping design showcase, gift and antiques show, a kids’ show (with everything from books to custom playhouses), and a food-sampling expo.

Guest experts will include Debra Fritz, the home-decor consultant for Target stores, who will speak Friday at 6 p.m. and Saturday at 1:30 p.m. Her presentation will include some of the design trends from England’s famed Chelsea Flower Show.

“There’s a big emphasis now on container-type gardening,” she said by phone. “It’s not new, but the field is enlarged because of all the [new lightweight] decorative containers, which are fabulous. . . . Home interiors are looking more like gardens, and gardens are looking more like home interiors.” Information: (714) 418-2000.

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Here’s a chance to have your Post Toasties in bowls owned by the late cereal heiress Marjorie Merriweather Post.

Nearly 2,000 pieces of faience that the very old-money Mrs. P. used at Mar-a-Lago (before Donald Trump turned her Palm Beach estate into a private club) are up for auction at https://www.Sothebys.com until May 3.

The 25 lots of Post’s Italian dishes and serving pieces--including an unspecified number with chips and cracks--are part of “The Dining Room Sale.”

That’s Sotheby’s clever grouping of sterling silver flatware, goblets, punch bowls, candlesticks and tea services along with old dinnerware, chandeliers, rugs, sideboards, mirrors and, of course, dining tables and chairs.

Talk about eclectic. Up for bid are items ranging from a 20th century, Georgian-style Chinese Chippendale vitrine (pre-sale estimate: $15,000 to $20,000) to a covered porcelain chamber pot ($500 to $700 estimate), but--excuse us--this is in the dining room sale?

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Peonies? Pencils? Fill as you will.

Hot New York furniture and accessories designer Karim Rashid has just created a yummy group of catchalls in squishy, shiny black vinyl lined with deep purple, a combo sexy enough for a nightclub.

Rashid designed the boxes in four shapes for Manhattan’s Totem Design Group, expanding a line that debuted last summer in white with yellow and clear with orange. (Check them out at the Totem Web site at https://www.totemdesign.com.)

“People love them because you can put desk accessories, CDs or pens in them, and you can use them as a vase,” said Christopher Ralston of Apartment Zero, a Washington, D.C., store that carries the boxes. Locally, they are available at MOCA stores, at Plastica in Los Angeles and Dom in Santa Monica. Price range: $20 to $25.