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Some artists create on canvas.
Xenia Zampolli prefers the wet porcelain of just-molded toilets and sinks. The Women's Committee for the National Symphony Orchestra was ecstatic last May when it finally bagged a distinguished Embassy Row residence for the 2000 fall show house. When the festooned and fauxed Georgian Revival house that was once philanthropist Paul Mellon's private art gallery opens to the public next Monday, it will be the committee's small victory over the local mansion shortage and the red-hot decorating boom. What's been sizzling in the past decade is homeowner interest in residential metal roofing. An ikebana show opens today at the Art League of the Torpedo Factory.