Posts by SkinnyGoomba

Nice! The market will return.

Quote:Originally Posted by Douglas Anybody see this? http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323372504578469410621274292.html WSJ article on the pleasures and pitfalls of owning a FLW home. Article is less interesting than...

I think most of them should fallow in the footsteps of Hermes. Their furniture/home goods are generally very nice with exception the H-printed crap and horse sculptures, which they don't do that much of.

Most seem to do better with curiosities than furniture.

A message has never accomplished anything for me that a glass of scotch has not.

Recent price reduction on this house: Esherick House by Louis Kahn

It's nicely made about on par in workmanship with the most famous Danish manufactures. I personally favor the work of the Danish manufacturers. The public seems to offer fashion companies an excess of goodwill when they step out of...

Prouve is better, just use a frosted globe style bulb. Not sure what I would do with those chairs.

Their $17,000 folding bench is nice. They had one of their servants bring me one of these while I waited for my fiancee' to shop last time. It was actually really nice. Same with the rest of their furniture, really nice and...

Kaplan, Up to you, they are both very similar in how they work. I like the palisander myself, but I've always enjoyed the look of rosewoods over other woods.