FENG SHUI TO THE RESCUE

"...Vinny Spinola, one of the shelter’s co-founders along with Tony Spoto, remarked to colleagues that he was worried about the shelter’s history as a breeding facility for laboratory mice. He joked that it needed a “good feng shui consultant” to clear the space’s negative energy.

That offhand remark reached the ears of ASPCA president Ed Sayres, whose wife, Michele, just happened to be an interior designer and a classically trained feng shui practitioner. She, in turn, thought that redesigning an animal shelter to achieve its maximum potential was just the sort of project that her branch of the Feng Shui Guild had been looking for..."

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FUNCTIONAL FURNISHINGS

"...Today the serving tray is a sought-after commodity. Not since the 1950s, when serving trays were an essential cocktail accoutrement, have people taken advantage of their practicality, function, and quiet style. "Serving trays are very trendy right now," says Michele Sayres, interior designer and owner of Michele Sayres Design in Millbrook and New York City. "I think a lot of this has to do with ottomans and coffee tables..."

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FENG SHUI CUBICLE

"...Feng shui is based on the same theory as acupuncture: a balance of the five elements-water, earth, fire, wood, and metal. "It involves the flow of energy, called chi, in and out- side the environment," says Michelle Sayres, a feng shui and real estate consultant in Greenbrae, California..."

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