A strange thing started happening to the chichi displays of bath fixtures in Billie Brenner's showroom earlier this year. Colors and materials that have not been in vogue since the days when Joyce DeWitt was landing steady acting gigs began resurfacing with alarming frequency in the fittings that fill Brenner's Boston Design Center space.

"I was designing in the 1970s," Brenner says, picking up a citrus orange faucet. "And no one has been using these colors since then. These are the colors that we were taking out of houses in the 1980s. Trust ...

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