Asian Modern: Swank Modern director, Niki, in front of a "Cambodia cool" modernist sculpture made using the four distinct Khmer rattan caning patterns used in traditional furniture and applied here to vibrant effect (Siem Reap).

Asian Modern: impressive tile work in a well-preserved mid-century diner in Kowloon, Hong Kong.

Asian Modern Gem

Cambodia is full of surprising modernist gems, including this guardhouse and rain shelter with an exquisite boomerang-shaped cast concrete roof (now covered with moss and plants) at the Angkor Conservancy, Siem Reap.