“Finally, I remove my watch,
as the time it tells
is losing all significance.”
- Peter Matthiesen

To call them accessories, or soft-furnishings, or collectibles, is to diminish their worth. Here are pieces that can hold their own in a room, on a coffee table or beneath your feet. These are the final layer that decalres a room as one-of-an-individual.

Fall hard for a Naga necklace, be besotted by a Moroccan mid-Atlas carpet, correspond on Nepalese notecards and store mittens in a Chinese basket.