A customer confided, "Rosewood House means so much to me; as an inspiration, it allows me to look deeper into things that matter most!" Thus, it has been significant to serve the Rosewood House customer, a collective over ten thousand strong, spanning four decades since Rosewood House opened its store in Oakland, Summer of 1969.

This lookbook captures a visual landscape of the collection designed, created, curated, shared and distributed through the Rosewood House. By Western interpretation, traditional Asian furniture, art and culture is taken to a new level of modern expressionism. Within the length of four-hundred-plus pages, you will discover:

• New meaning to traditional cultural objects
• Bonds between the East and the West
• Evolution in style, tastes, aesthetics and human desire over centuries of history
• Contradictions between traditional handicraft and mass-production
• Symbolism in Asian motifs and themes
• The distinction between past and the present, old and new
• Viewpoints directly from the authority of authenticity