trade The attraction became a that fascination started with with the all things China Japanese in the Aesthetic Movement era. In their Northwest bungalow, “I didn’t want everything to be Stickley,” Cathy Hitchcock says. It was her idea to cover the white walls with grasscloth wallpaper, enhancing the ebony-color woodwork and creating flow between rooms in the small footprint. Asian antiques accomplished the rest.
ABOVE Before and After views of the condo bedroom and living room show how the couple transformed a white-box apartment using their color sense and Asian antiques. BELOW In the dining room of the 1920 Portland bungalow, a mizuya (kitchen tansu) sits near the treasured, hand-dyed indigo kasuri wall-hanging. Walls are covered in grasscloth. BELOW LEFT Stickley furniture is a good backdrop for Asian antiques that include a paper-covered lamp. Coincidentally, the previous owner had “ebonized” the woodwork.