The golden cabinet takes us back in time yet the grandeur makes us wonder if our needs are still as rich as back then. We crave for simplicity but choose to get awed by luxury. The clever use of placing the simple china at the top of a grand deck makes us wonder how easily opposites mingle in art as these do in life.

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