KUCHING: Naim Holdings Bhd introduces its upmarket Naim Signature Collection brand today, commencing with the Kuching Paragon integrated developments iconic component Sapphire On The Park.

The launch event will be held at Naims new Kuching sales gallery at Rock commercial centre, which has an interior design by French interior decorator Bruno Panis.

Situated at Jalan Batu Lintang and to be developed in phases, Kuching Paragon integrates residential, business, retail and hospitality components a one-stop hub for multifaceted lifestyle pursuits.

Naim deputy managing director Christina Wong said Naim Signature Collection will showcase the unique propositions of a selected range of residential and commercial properties.

Properties under the collection will feature unique propositions namely benefits of integrated development, multi-tiered security, branded finishes and other special features. It will provide property owners and investors the good opportunity to discover the potential of a Naim Signature Collection product and its value appreciation, said Wong.

She added that the collection will become a sustainable platform to strengthen the appeal and value of the Naim Property brand in the hearts and minds of property buyers.

The first product under the collection, Sapphire On The Park, is set to be one of the most sought after upmarket condo developments in the region.

Sapphire On The Park, built with a contemporary tropical minimalist concept, epitomises resort and chic urban living, where form integrates seamlessly with function. In addition to modern living spaces within a secured environment, Sapphire offers over 72,000 square feet of lifestyle facilities for its residents. As Sapphire is located within the Kuching Paragon integrated development, it is primed for capital appreciation, she said.

Wong said the show units were also fitted out by Panis, with Parisian and chic modern European themes.

To mark the Sapphire launch and Chinese New Year celebration, she said exciting angpow promotions are in store.

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Hes back. Craig Raywood, the interior decorator who fled New York for Los Angeles in 2005, has returned to our fair city.

The flamboyant and dapper designer is living in an apartment building at 72nd and York Avenue, according to a neighbor.

Raywood whose clients included Paul Simon, Denise Rich and Beth Rudin DeWoody left behind a pile of bad debts and angry creditors when he relocated to Los Angeles eight years ago.

After hosting a dinner party at his West Hollywood home, attended by Cornelia Guest, Bret Easton Ellis, Kenny Scharf, Lawrence ODonnell and Nikki Haskell, he was soon bouncing checks and racking up new debts around town.

Dr. Randal Haworth said that Raywood never paid him for $19,000 worth of plastic surgery.Photo: PRNewsFoto

Craig doesnt need burglars tools, a lawyer who tracked him for years told Los Angeles magazine in 2008. He breaks into your mind. He breaks into your heart. The rest is easy.

The two-part magazine story by Steve Oney also quoted Dr. Randal Haworth, who was never paid by Raywood for $19,000 worth of plastic surgery. The guy has zero remorse, said Haworth. He did what he did to me with the cool calculation of a serial killer. Hes a sociopath.

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Lichtenstein Moe's Tavern, 2013 by Jon Rafman/BNPJ

How might Picasso have fared as an interior decorator? If Jasper Johns had plied his trade on rooms instead of canvases, could he have made it into House Beautiful? Would we be watching The Franz Kline Treatment on HGTV if he were still around, and at all interested in wall treatments? Canadian artist and filmmaker Jon Rafman has been obliquely probing these hypotheticals with a single-topic Tumblr called Brand New Paint Job, where he culls amateur three-dimensional models from Google 3D Warehouse and digitally overlays them with the work of different artists. The rooms aren't meant to look good, exactly; some are intentionally (and hilariously) downright hideous, but one gets the sense that questions of taste miss the point of this formal exercise, as they would with Rafman's better-known project, where he exhibits found images from Google Street View, like a few of his contemporaries. As he explained to Bullett, "The BNPJ project enacts both a reduction and homage to these artists' work: on one level the painting becomes wallpaper, and on another these BNPJ rooms are like shrines to the artists." Make pilgrimage to these impressively executed shrines, including Duchamp's take on the Seinfeld set, below:

Jasper Johns Oval Office, 2013 by Jon Rafman/BNPJ

Keith Haring Theater, 2013 by Jon Rafman/BNPJ

Rothko 1960's Living Room, 2013 by Jon Rafman/BNPJ

Duchamp Seinfeld Set, 2013 by Jon Rafman/BNPJ

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A new breed of buyer has taken over the auction world. John Albrecht, managing director of Leonard Joel in Melbourne, has defined this part-investor, ''part-interior decorator'' species as ''the collectorator''.

This is, as he outlines in Leonard magazine, ''the new dominant buyer in the marketplace once dominated by the traditional collector - the collectorator is the new buyer that combines sophisticated aesthetics with an eye for all periods and designs.

''The collectorator treats his or her entire living environment as an opportunity to showcase visually fascinating and stimulating items with utility and space in mind.''

Albrecht says this new demographic - younger and very savvy about what they do and don't want - has emerged during the past two years.

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Females of the collectorator species are now more likely to be bidding on the floor, with great confidence, and are obviously after a signature piece for a room.

''They are after a look as well as a history,'' says Albrecht. This explains the increasing popularity of modernist furniture and post-1950s design objects.

Leonard Joel has embraced this scene during the past decade while, in Sydney, Shapiro Auctioneers specialises in it.

In December, Shapiro sold a 1953 Grant Featherston Z300 chaise longue for $8800 IBP, and a Piero Fornasetti ''Zebra'' cabinet for $19,200 IBP.

In the same issue of Leonard is Albrecht's list of ''twelve interesting things we sold in 2013''. These range from a Matchbox model of a 1967 Mercury Cougar (sold for $5612 IBP) to a pair of Joe Colombo 1963 Elda black leather chairs (sold for $9760 IBP).

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'The idea is to hang your window treatments up as high as possible so they are closer to the ceiling than to the window frame, ' interior decorator Susan Keefe says. 'That makes the windows look bigger, it draws the eye up and it lets in as much light as possible.'

Keefe reworked this Oakland living room, strategically placing accent lights and using window treatments to take advantage of the natural light.

You've got an overhead light fixture. You add a few table lamps. Maybe a floor lamp. Flick on the switches and you're done, right?

Wrong. Bad lighting decisions and poor lighting layout can ruin a room, lighting designers and interior decorators say, making dining rooms gloomy, kitchens hard to work in, and living rooms hard to live with. But there are simple solutions that require a little time, planning, effort and money.

One of the most common lighting mistakes is to rely only on already-installed recessed downward-facing lights in the ceiling, said Darryl Tucker, a lighting designer and owner of Fort Lee-based Helicon Hall Design Associates. Installing dimmers on those types of lights is one way to fix the problem.

"You want to arrange the lighting in the room so you have light and dark areas," Tucker said. "The light should not be all the same, or else it has that cafeterial look."

If you can't install hanging ceiling lights to give a room lighting depth, another solution is to use sconces on the walls, Tucker said. Several years ago, Tucker worked with Tenafly homeowner Myra Genn on her living room.

"I don't want to say that it was gloomy, but ... it was gloomy," Genn said. "We had table lamps scattered around, but no overhead lights, and the lamp light was just not doing the trick to illuminate the entire area."

The solution was to add a series of nine spotlights in different sizes in the ceiling. One points toward a cherished piece of art above the fireplace. Another lights a favorite reading spot. All are on individual dimmers.

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BEIJING (TheStreet) -- Shares in Chinese luxury-goods suppliers fell Tuesday as the Communist Party's campaign against lavish government spending turned against a businessman who made a fortune selling marble and chandeliers for public buildings.

Zhu Xingliang's arrest on bribery charges was announced by his company, Golden Mantis Building Decoration, which for years has been riding a wave of costly building construction projects financed by government agencies eager to flaunt their wealth. It was unclear whether Zhu would continue serving as the company's president.

Leaders in Beijing have been telling the nation's bureaucrats to curb frivolous spending or incur the party's wrath since President Xi Jinping took office in late 2012.

On the Shenzhen Stock Exchange, Golden Mantis shares fell 3.3% Tuesday to close at 19.13 yuan, a competing supplier Guanfu Modern Household Wares lost 1% to end the day at 4.74 yuan and platinum jewelry maker Ming Jewelry declined 3% to close at 23.66 yuan. On the Shanghai exchange, shares in bone china and jade porcelain maker Glarun Technology declined 4.4% to end at 41.53 yuan a share.

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