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I spent several years dreaming of owning one of these, and actively searching on the internet for a manufacturer until one day... A stop at my favorite thrift store yielded my biggest find yet. I still remember seeing it from up the street thinking, no - it can't be... but it really was. For $40. Thrift stores and a little luck aside, you can find one at www.modernica.net for $1495. The Inmod one is obviously a much better deal!

Brown Jordan makes the original, and they are still in production. Expensive, of course. I think the Inmod version is probably the best bet if you buy it new. You can always be patient and wait for it to show up on eBay or Craigslist... But it might be almost as expensive to refurbish that one, after shipping etc as to buy it new from Inmod.

I imagine you could make a cheap version with pvc pipe (although it might not hold up in the wind) or maybe just a regular pipe painted white? Some canvas cloth and grommets? It seems somehow possible...

looks like something a welder could whip up in no time fairly cheaply, an awning company could make up a cover, heck the gromets are easy, you could make the cover yourself. A few years ago I had a welder make a smaller version of a Cappellini table to be used for a desk, it set me back something in the neighborhood of $250 for the frame, I had a glass top made elsewhere...