Umbra Re-Imagines the Metal of Kings and of Bling

You may think gold is too brash or too staid for your contemporary rooms. But Umbra's award-winning design team will make you think again – they've given the precious metal a whole new contemporary feeling.

"Gold has too much visual impact to ignore," says Umbra's co-founder and VP of design, Paul Rowan. "So our designer Michelle Ivankovic found a way to make it feel right for the modern home – yet we've kept it affordable."

Group a trio of gold-finished ceramic BRELLA vases on a console table and fill them with fanciful TILLA silver flowers for entertaining. Or give TILLA as an easy gift – this bouquet of 18 silver-plated posies is already wrapped in an elegant flower-patterned package.

Need the perfect hostess gift or just want to dress up your own environment? Gleaming white BRELLA serving bowls set offer a field of abstract 14-karat blossoms to showcase your gourmet creations in the dining room, or a gilded, organically inspired setting for handful of polished stones or scented dried flowers in the living room.

Rowan thinks you should use gold everywhere. "Put some small BRELLA bowls on your dresser and show off the gold and silver jewelry you've been hiding in your jewelry box," he says. "Why wouldn't you want to surround yourself with a new take on luxury?"