The designer's imagination was probably triggered by something quite different (she said just two words: "inside decoration").
The label's founder and designer, Rei Kawakubo, said she was thinking about "inside decoration": where other designers might use jewellery for the surface of their collection, this was about externalising what you do to protect yourself inside.
Inside, the decorations will include simulated theater scenery with banks of spotlights.
Some useful items would be a mirror, a dry erase board, a magnetic pencil case, some paper lining for the inside, and decorations.
"Inside decoration," Ms. Kawakubo said afterward.
There are no decorations inside, except for a map of the world and a picture of Joseph's ordination.
Lyndhurst, acquired in 1961 by the National Trust for Historic Preservation, is a castlelike feast for the eyes, and inside, the Christmas decorations include delightful scenes invoking classic children's stories.
While the box cover is decorated with a relatively simple conch shell, the decoration inside is wildly intricate, with leaves, flowers, rocks, blossoms and richly sculpted rocks.
Although powerful and superbly built, Senate House and its attendant buildings feel cold, remote and even rather frightening despite Holden's rich use of materials and decoration inside, including stained-glass windows and a colourful, whimsical map of London made by McDonald Gill (1887-1947), brofher of the priapic typographer Eric Gill.
