The Decor Edit: Over 130 New Pieces

The shelves at Dantone Home have changed. More than 130 new pieces have arrived in decor, and they do not share a single style.

Some belong by the sea, some look as if they grew rather than were made, and some are pure colour held in glass. So rather than list them, we have sorted them by mood: five groups, each with its own idea of how a room should feel, and each easy to mix with what you already have.

Coral, shell and the curl of a wave. The first group brings the coast indoors, in sun-bleached whites, soft mint and the green-and-white stripe of a beach cabin. Even on a grey day, a branch of white coral on a shelf carries the feeling of salt air and long afternoons by the water.

It is the lightest of the five moods, made for a room full of daylight, a bathroom shelf, or a console that should feel like the first morning of a holiday. Pale linen, washed oak, and rattan suit it best, and a few pieces grouped together say more than one on its own.

These are vases that look like the things you put in them: mushrooms, seed pods, leaves, cactus, petals opening at the rim. They bring a little of the garden indoors and keep it there all year, whatever the season outside.

They need very little inside, a single stem or nothing at all, because the form already does the work. Deep blues and greens sit beside rust and ochre, all of them glazes that catch the light unevenly, so the same vase looks different at breakfast and by lamplight. On a dark wooden sideboard or a stone windowsill, they read almost like small pieces of sculpture.

Coloured glass is the one material that changes with the hour. Green and amber vases throw their colour across a table in the morning and glow like lamps at sunset. Tall bottles and low bowls, fluted or smooth, they look as good holding a few stems of eucalyptus as they do standing empty.

Place them where the light can pass through, on a windowsill or a console under a window, and group them in odd numbers and different heights. Green glass softens a white room, amber warms a grey one, and the two together bring the colours of an autumn garden indoors.

Some objects are less decoration than a small exhibition. Figures, rings, loops, and graphic black-and-white patterns turn a bookcase into something closer to a gallery wall. Each piece holds attention on its own, so give it space rather than company.

This is the mood for a study, a hallway console, or the shelf beside a reading chair, anywhere the eye rests long enough to notice a shape. Set one between a stack of art books and a lamp, and the whole shelf starts to look curated rather than filled.

The last group looks as if it has lived in the house for years: terracotta horses, an amphora with handles, crackled glazes, copper candleholders, and planters with an antique finish. These are the pieces that give a newly furnished room the feeling of having a past.

It sits naturally with dark wood, leather, and lime-washed walls, and it goes outside too, with planters and sculptures made to stand on a terrace through the seasons. Copper candlelight on a long table, a pair of terracotta horses on a bookcase, and the house feels settled.