Most follow the same eccentric design: their window-frames painted in strong shades of lilac; their gabled roofs topped by silver finials, shaped like miniature versions of Shanghai's Oriental Pearl Tower.Cheap and cheerful is also the operating principle of Haolaiwu Textiles, which sells bright curtains to clients in Germany, Italy and elsewhere in Europe.
IN THE crumbling Muslim quarter of Lucknow, the capital of Uttar Pradesh, India's most populous state, a man with white beard and lilac kurta pyjamas weaves briskly through the alleys.
In 1976, a year after a uniform passport was first proposed, Britain shuddered at the suggested shade of delicate lilac.
The mountains are beautiful beneath the cornflower-blue sky; olive and brown, with golden grasses all the way down, flecked with lilac flowers.
Diamonds, lilac sapphires, garnets, aluminium, silver and gold.
Huts painted lilac, turquoise and pink stand out against a rust-coloured hillside.
In your next meeting, count the shirts in purple, mauve, lilac and aubergine.Purple has its uses, too, when politics is breaking new ground.
Not so far from Great Dixter, at Sissinghurst Castle, lay the epitome of English taste in Vita Sackville-West's White Garden, surrounded by equally soothing beddings in blue, lilac and mauve.
Mr Murakami's version is lurid and surreal, a thrilling mash-up of ancient imagery and trippy effects (detail pictured).One panel features a whale in stripes of yellow, green, lilac and blue, its mouth wide open like a cavern of infinity.
"The Tilled Field", for example, features a large ear sticking out of a tree trunk, a dog that appears to be part cactus, a jack-in-the box with pencils for fingers, a fish surrounded by rabbits, a big pink rooster and a lilac snail.
Children played near a lilac tree.
