The Hollywood film, Entrapment (1999, Jon Amiel), starring Catherine Zeta-Jones and Sean Connery, features Asian art. Specifically, the scene in which viewers are introduced to the personal home, err, castle of the master art thief in Sean Connery’s lead character.

The chacters fly in by helicopter overhead a magnificent stone building, Castle Duart on the Island of Mull. Catherine Zeta Jones’ character enters through the wood doors and is taken aback, impressed by the collectibles and artifacts in the living room.

The camera pans past the staircase to the living quarters upstairs displaying a beautiful Antique Korean Chest.

“Oh wow. This is quite a collection.”

“Thank you. Most people buy art to show it off, I collect art for me.”

In the next scene, there is an Official’s Hat accent chair in the bedroom.

The set decorators did a fabulous job and this is just one of many Hollywood films with set decorations featuring Asian art. When a home, like many Bay Area modern home builds featuring concrete and straight lines, is cold (a stone castle qualifies), an organic wood accent warms the space, creating character and depth, and invites the dweller in. This film does a great job at illustrating this concept.

Come into the stores and take some organic Fuyu persimmons home with you. Concord sun grown! Crisp like an apple, but with a mild and butter-like sweetness. We are happy to share the harvest!

Dr. Shymala Harris, of Oakland, is a Rosewood House life customer, acquiring a number of items from the Rosewood House collection throughout the past years. Mrs. Harris was always proud of her daughter, Kamala, as she graduated law school and became the San Francisco District Attorney. Kamala is all grown up; here she is with Heidi and Jane, owner and lead designer of Rosewood House, in Uptown Oakland.

Kamala is in the news for her newly published book: “Smart on Crime: A Prosecutor’s Plan to Make Us Safer” and is seeking the 2010 California Attorney General title.