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South African natives Mary Slack and Fraser Conlon fill their unusual, vividly adorned gallery with art, home décor, and furniture from sub-Saharan African designers. Soothing music plays overhead and hanging lights shaped like bursting bouquets of flowers cast a warm glow across the spacious showroom. The textured grey walls are hung with the intricate, hand-sewn fabric collages of Billie Zangewa and lifelike oil paintings by Deborah Poynton. The furniture is handcrafted and uncommon, from hand-felted Merino wool seats shaped like giant pebbles to three-foot-wide cushions covered in a rainbow spectrum of hand-knotted fabric and tulle. Light fixtures exhibit elaborate detail, like a kiln-fired chandelier glittering with more than 6,000 dangling crystal beads, or radiant bursts of flowers cut from colorful recycled detergent bottles (part of Heath Nash’s collection titled �Other People’s Rubbish�). But the bulk of the stock consists of African-made decorative accents, including curvaceous, hand-painted ceramics, elegant bowls twisted from plastic-coated fine copper wire, and kaleidoscopic woven palm baskets. — Lauren Murrow