Incorporating traditional design elements into modern designs can be a welcome endeavor. It's an opportunity to be creative by subverting or reimagining classic pieces, like a Louis XIV armchair or toile wallcovering. These items can act like Easter Eggs, inviting users in on the secret by using familiar forms with a modern twist. We often employ staging and art to honor the past life of a building, site, or environment. For example, at Elevate, a high-rise residential tower in Cambridge, MA, we used antique lab equipment for staging, nodding to the medical innovation that has shaped East Cambridge, past, present, and future.