Ms. Bright's unpleated linen panels screen the windows like sheer movable walls, transmuting daylight into translucence.
If I had to choose just one work to epitomise the movement, it would be Traquair's esoteric series of embroidered linen panels The Progress of a Soul.
The stage space was framed by white linen panels, with the dancers stepping over the floor-wide one and the duet couple (Daniel Madoff and Melissa Toogood) subsiding across it unexpectedly.
The salon of one megayacht, the Kismet, has a Persian theme, with honey-toned linen panels featuring hand-embroidered passionflower motifs created from gold thread, glass beads and freshwater pearls, according to the Web site.
The yarn is woven into linen panels, which are linked together with special sewing machines until a sweater takes shape.
From the moment I enter through linen panels under an embellished roof section that belonged to Maeda Toshika, last lord of Daishoji-han, before being installed in the Fukagawa Tomioka Hachimangu shrine in Tokyo, I'm struck by every exquisite detail.
The Zen Med look gets more play upstairs in 98 rooms that are as cleverly put-together as origami and have sleek taupe and ivory-colored furniture, bleached-oak parquet floors, and white walls accented with sand-colored linen panels printed with stylized olive-green and white pine needles.
West Elm, Ms. Dennis's third recommendation, offers the most affordable option: a two-color linen window panel ($49 to $74) that comes in neutral color combinations like ivory-espresso and putty-clay (888-922-4119, www.westelm.com).
Benjamin Degen, Dapple, 2013, Oil on linen over panel, 36 x 54 in.
Mr. Pastore and Mrs. Nasrallah now occasionally garnish their clothes and linens with panels of Indian and Chinese silk.
