If you are looking for real mirrored furniture or things shiny and fabulous, Venfield is a must-stop store. In our search for mirrored furniture, we have found very few sources and none that stock so exclusively in this category...
Venfield
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Venfield is a small shop with a big rotating stock in an eclectic array of mid-century and 18th and 19th century antiques, cultivating a "unique balance of old world sophistication combined with a sexy modern point of view." If you don't see it, Greg Ventra and Mark Field will get it for you. Prices are serious and vary depending on how unique something is. A pair of mirrored nightstands can run you $6,000, but they will have that cool old time mirrored patina.
Updated from this post published 3.15.05
Venfield
| Location: |
392 Bleeker Street
New York,
NY
10014
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| Phone: |
212.627.5552
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| Website: | venfieldnyc.com |
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So gorgeous...but completely out of my price-point. Target...? Where are you? Come out with some knock offs!
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Target already had "knock offs" of mirrored furniture last year.
Ugliest things I have ever seen. Why would you want your house to look like its from a 70s porn? Honestly. Tackiest thing I have ever seen in my life.
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Nesagwa, I think you just have to be discriminating about how you use the finish and where. I'm thinking now about whether there's some kind of wall paint that will give a "chrome" or "mirror" finish--it might be interesting to use that to put a "mirror" on the wall or on a door.
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There's no such thing as a "great knock off".
Our own company is barely off the ground, and we've already had people talking publicly and openly about how to 'copy' our work in truly appalling ways.
The mirrored furniture isn't to my own taste. I have to admit that first image really caught my attention, but on first glance the finish wasn't really apparent.
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"There's no such thing as a "great knock off"."
Completely agree.
US Customs has been confiscating knockoff Prada, Louis Vuitton and Coach bags, etc. for years - there are lawsuits pending in Europe against Chinese manufacturers knocking off BMW's, Daewoo/Chevrolets and smart cars - I wonder when people will start getting serious about cheap knockoff furniture?
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"There's no such thing as a great knock off."
I have to disagree here. As a business owner I can sympathise with your sentiment, however I have seen first hand that this is just not true. Part of what fuels the knock-off industry is insanely high markups on merchandise. I have for instance seen a perfect Hermes knockoff. I know a perfect Hermes knockoff because I own several authentic Hermes items. The leather was exactly the same, the markings were exactly the same, the stiching was exactly the same. The price was very different. While the knockoff was not cheap (around $1k) it certainly was far less than I paid and the bag was identical. That got me to thinking. Where is the value in the supposed "authentic" items. Is it in materials or craftmanship? If so, the knockoff was able to reproduce the exact item for a fraction of the cost and the merchant was obviously still making a profit. Unfortunately, though I am loathe to admit it, oftentimes the value is simply in the brand itself and I wonder if that is reason enough to pay thousands more than the instrinsic value of the merchandise.
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