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NYT House & Home Roundup: 10.25.07
Part I

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Market Report. We loved this feature! Best Sellers and Bombs, and What Stores Are Betting On looks at products from design stores around the country that defied expectations — good or bad. By profiling stores from various geographical locations, the reader gets a basic understanding of the roles of buyers and their job of predicting success based on their unique kind of customer. You'll recognize many products — many we've discussed here — but you might be surprised what did well...

 
 

The slideshow explains everything but here are some interesting discoveries:

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In Dallas store Nest, Jonathan Adler's Utopia ceramics do well, but his needlepoint pillows do not.
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AT favorite, Design House's Stockholm Bicycle Basket does exceptionally well at San Francisco's Zinc Details.
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KleinReid's Porcelain Campfire didn't go over well on AT, but is a best seller at Boston's Koo de Kir.

Do any ATers own any of the best sellers? What about the bombs?

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god, was that a lesson in how NOT to write slideshow info. and wow, what a surprise that the $2,800 hippo doesn't sell.

that said: i'd kill for the boontje dining table.

posted by ung on October 25th 2007 at 7:21am
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Ung - I agree. It was very confusingly organized but full of interesting information.

posted by Aaron on October 25th 2007 at 7:55am
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This was an interesting bit of insight into regional design differences. Can't say I'm surprised that the ceramic Hostess Cupcake was a bomb, especially in a store that the owner proclaims is not a "tchotchke house!"

posted by J on October 25th 2007 at 8:18am
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Sleeping pigs are IN? I must have been snoozing when that was announced...

posted by hejiranyc on October 25th 2007 at 8:20am
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I didn't realize the jury is still out on the Louis Ghost chair.

I hope they bomb, so I can afford a set of them after the price drops.

posted by Doug on October 25th 2007 at 9:02am
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No surprise on the hippo, but I too am flat out amazed by that popular pig.

posted by cmcinnyc on October 25th 2007 at 9:09am
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Thursdays I take the Times and Washington Post's Home sections to lunch with me & knew we'd be chatting later -- there were a few things I've long admired (the Ghost chairs, the Ibride trays, the "lace" bicycle basket), but of all the new ones -- I have to say that for some odd reason the birds' feet just charmed me.

posted by Deborah on October 25th 2007 at 9:17am
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I received a pair of the black bird's feet for Christmas last year, and am still tickled every time I glimpse them. I put them on a small glass block from Roost where they brood in mystery and gather comment from everyone who visits.

posted by rattus on October 25th 2007 at 9:38am
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That pig scares me. If he is sleeping why aren't his eyes closed? Also, I can't believe she is betting on a silver basket with a bell just seems so so annoying.

posted by alexis on October 25th 2007 at 10:27am
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