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LA Good Quotes: Los Angeles Furniture: A 'Scout's' View

atla020708_goodquotes.jpgWe were catching up on our KCRW podcasts, and we noted this observation made by David Keeps of the LA Times during a past DNA broadcast, "Los Angeles Furniture: A 'Scout's' View":

Depending on your budget and your time, you can drive a bit and find something at one price, or if you’re a bit lazy you can go to La Cienega Boulevard and pay the top dollar for it...

 
 

There’s almost like an economic food chain in the Los Angeles area where there are people who literally go out in vans picking up things from yard sales and out of the garbage and they take them somewhere and that person sends it out to the refinisher and, boom you’ve taken something off the curb and turned it into a $4,000 designer item.
-David Keeps, LA Times Home Section

[photo from Woodson & Rummerfield's House of Design on La Cienega Blvd.]

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Ouch!

posted by nazrd on 2008-02-07 17:34:53
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soooooo true.

posted by goodnightdean on 2008-02-07 18:13:38
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And his point is?

posted by bepsf on 2008-02-07 18:22:46
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and where can one go to plunk down said piece of furniture for refinishing? anyone got any resources?

posted by theblt on 2008-02-07 19:29:10
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The room pictured above is absolutely terrifying. Seriously, this is the stuff nightmares are made of.

posted by petro on 2008-02-07 20:47:23
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Its a little bit clockwork orange. but I think its awesome!

posted by Clairepetrol on 2008-02-07 21:12:42
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No doubt that room has a point of view. I'd like to spend an hour or two in it to see what it does to my mood...

posted by SMM on 2008-02-08 08:25:05
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The settee is just a bit too frou frou for me, but otherwise, I think the room is rather stunning. It's a very satisfying composition.

posted by hejiranyc on 2008-02-08 09:26:56
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I want to know where these yard sales are.

posted by jenniejen on 2008-02-09 17:08:03
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