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Robert Kuo, a Los Angeles artist known for his cloisonné and lacquer work, has just opened a 4,000-square-foot furniture and decorative accessories store in SoHo. Designed by New York-based TEK Architects, the showroom has 18-foot ceilings, huge street-level windows and a one-and-a-half-ton wall of copper repoussé, a handhammered relief technique that can be seen in many of Mr. Kuo’s cabinets and tables. (Photo: J. Emilio Flores for The New York Times)

The store carries playful decorative objects like giant lacquer vegetables and copper-and-lacquer snails, as well as contemporary furniture like the H-Shaped Arm Rest Chair ($9,450), left, covered with 60 coats of lacquer. (Photo: Lars Klove For for The New York Times)

Cream lacquer Dong Shan tables ($4,500). (Photo: Lars Klove For for The New York Times)

The Peking Glass vases ($1,050 to $5,000) are made of six layers of opaque glass. (Photo: Lars Klove For for The New York Times)

Robert Kuo, 303 Spring Street (Hudson Street), (212) 229-2020, www.robertkuo.com.

by courtesy of STEPHEN TREFFINGER. www.nytimes.com