John Snow is Interfering with My Luxury Lifestyle

- March 22, 2005 @ 4:15 pm · Filed under Legalese

Miss Y. is speaking frankly about her young lawyer shopping habits this week, so I’ll add my own consumer wh()re bear alert.  According to the Times , those Loro Piana sweaters are going to be tad pricier come fall, thanks to the anemic dollar:

Loro Piana, the Italian cashmere company, is raising prices in the
American market for fall by about 5 percent, with its staple V-neck
sweaters priced at $550, and crew necks at $595, up $30.

(Btw, other than the the luxury crimp on European goods, I’m pretty neutral about the weak dollar policy.)

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Edit: I’m also sad that the Noguchi table is $150 more expensive than this time last year.  Then again, it’s become as ubiquitous as Ikea’s no-frills Lack.

3 Comments

  1. billy breakfast

    March 23, 2005 @ 12:46 am

    1

    I’ve seen the Noguchi table at least three times and thought it *was* Ikea. Honestly.

  2. echan

    March 23, 2005 @ 12:19 pm

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    The table’s 2-inch thick glass top has a certain heft that is very non-Ikea (read “Non-flimsy”). But the table crested around the time the Ready Made Mag featured a DIY model.

    But to resurrect Noguchi’s name, he was Bucky Fuller’s best friend.

  3. billy breakfast

    March 23, 2005 @ 2:52 pm

    3

    It wasn’t the “quality,” but moreso the ubiquitous nature of the table (as you suggest) that led me to believe that it was an Ikea offering.

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