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the lowdown When dealing in furniture, sometimes how you frame it is as important as the actual wares. For almost 20 years, Kevin McPherson has combed China, Japan, Indonesia, and Morocco for eclectic gems to sell in his home-furnishings store, Mohr & McPherson. Given the sheer breadth exotic pieces, making sense of them all in his former cramped showroom on Boylston Street was an exer-cise in frustration. No longer. The new two-floor, 8,000-square-foot space on Harrison Avenue, a bur-geoning hub for interior-design-focused retail, provides ample breathing room for the dizzying array of antique wooden furniture, most notably cabinetry from Japan ($800–$10,000), and home accents rang-ing from contemporary lamps to bowls made of Indian tree trunks to antique Chinese jewelry sculptures

Style, et Cetera

whAt’S SellInG BeStCabinets and chests im-

ported straight from Asia, like this antique Chinese

alter table ($445), provide functional storage with a

worldly charm.

oUR FAVoRIte IteMThe textured, graphic fabric brings a vintage

quality to this Cisco Brothers’ armchair

($2929).

CoVeted BY the ShoP CleRK

An Akari light sculp-ture by Japanese-Amer-

ican artist Noguchi ($175) freshens up any space without feeling overbearingly mod.

MohR MCPheRSon 460 HARRISON AVE.

BOSTON 617-210-7900MOHR-MCPHERSON.COM

the FURnIShInG

toUChmohr & mcpherson’s

new SoWa showroom acknowledges the

importance of every import.

tAKInG InVentoRY