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Originally Posted by quiltergal
Well bless your little red soled feet! 😉 It's a very pretty Phal, and Jimmy was very wise to consign it to your care.
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That.....was adorable! But Terri, know that I have no respect for any female so lacking an actual identity she can be held hostage by any footware only the vapid would give $2,500 for! I know what all that merda costs to make!
But I will say, I would rather eat worms than ever be some victim of COMMERCE re red soles.....my little toe nails are always some shade of red and always perfect and I do them myself! I would made a pic but that would be TOTALLY insane, forget also creepy.
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Originally Posted by Optimist
Its an awesome orchid, but I have seen similar for less than 30$ elsewhere, JM. I've seen these puppies at Lowes. Maybe not the exact cultivar, but similar enough to be twins. I wouldn't argue with some hoity toity overpriced seller in downtown manhatten. He's got his rep and his overhead to consider. A hybrid phal for 100$ when you can get them for $39.95? That is Silly as far as I am concerned.
And if you ever need custom molds made, get in touch with me. I make molds. (I guessed about Manhatten. Were from Brookline)
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Not the same thing, Ms. Talented Thing. Most of ours have two identical plants in the pot, many spikes, are gargantuan....and pls get, business is about costs and labor: a high end presentation in an expensive, big clay pot with the requisite bells and whistles indigenous to this level/imagery, i.e. sheet moss covering the ties, etc. every part labor intensive.....are the way they are in response to a certain demographic. Plus, this is an upscale part of Manhattan. The guy up the street sells these for what he does all day long and nobody breaks a sweat. If you knew what commercial space in my neighborhood costs per square foot....well gotta get all the data and see it all in perspective.
Most of my neighbors, MANY OF WHOM work on Wall Street---I offered some info so that people here might get some sense---EXPECT this pretentious level in all things. Do I? Come on....of course not! But here, I am an ABSOLUTE exception.
Re the mold, no, this required an older, hugely gifted and SINGULAR guy who is famously skilled with GLASS.
Beyond the perfect custom mold, he also had to spin and blow and hand engrave with old world master chops. He works MAINLY for the top museums in the world.
And HE kept the mold! We got three replacement shades, two are now in storage....just in case. It was a fortune, Jimmy didn't care. Remember, he (and the other members of the owning family, same family since 1931) could have easily chosen to save all those many thousands by just replacing all those vintage bronze lobby ceiling fixtures with something new...reproductions. But that's not how he rolls. And given the reality of this splendid building....it deserved no less.
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