In the natural world, it brings bountiful harvests and pretty flowers.

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Wolfgang Mozart didn't just write pretty incidental music for the court, Jane Austen didn't just write love stories and Bonnard didn't just paint pretty flowers, bowls of fruit and tabletops.

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Many are pretty tacky: full of plastic flowers, fake stained-glass windows and doll's-house pews.

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But when it came to paintings he had bought only figurative work, like a pretty oil of a vase of flowers by Milton Avery.

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Then comes the fun part: vintage textiles, large pillows, pictures on the walls, pretty lampshades, hanging candelabras and chunky vases filled with fresh flowers.

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