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Totally hot. Think Palm Springs, people.

Totally not. Think my upstate NY childhood, people. Add a macrame nylon plant holder (with big, matching yellow wood beads woven in) holding a dusty fern, and it's a complete, tacky, not-quite-vintage-enough scene.

"Tacky" is so subjective, idn't it? Ain't nuthin' wrong with little macrame or '70s-era yellow.

If this set is priced at $18,000 and selling from a trendy shop on Melrose, this would not be in the AT's "hot or not" section and there will be no discussion at all. Wallpaper magazine will glorify this as a prop showing the most unreal goodlooking models wearing unwearable fashion while lounging upside down and having vodka, intravenously of course. It is $180 folks, you either buy it and accept it for what it is or pass.