Decorate with Numbers: 10 Favorite Numerical Accessories

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This is a trend that has seemed to have had some staying power. And while you wouldn't necessarily want every object in your home numbered, a little numerical decorating can be a good thing. Our favorites here are the French influenced items such as the cafe glasses and dessert plates. Just for fun, we stuck one rather expensive item in the mix. Can you spot which item retails for nearly $300?

Did you guess that Number 7 was the most expensive accessory of the bunch? These rustic tin boxes are from the Pottery Barn where they retail for nearly $300!

FIRST ROW
• 1 numbered napkins, etsy seller betsygrace, $30 (set of 6)
• 2 milk bottle carafe, Three Potato Four, $20
• 3 enameled number plates, etsy seller dana1912, $6
• 4 numerical mugs Anthropologie , on sale for $3.95
• 5 The Weight of Numbers (Wood Type Collage), etsy seller greenchairpress, $18.00
SECOND ROW
• 6 set of four French desert plates, Sadie Olive, $42.50
• 7 set of two rustic tins, Pottery Barn, $299
• 8 Numbers by Binth, Reform School, $55
• 9 cafe wine glasses, Sadie Olive, $10
• 10 set of three numbers cross stitch pattern, etsy seller andwabisabi, $7.50

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BTW, those "rustic" tins can be had for a lot less at surplus stores. They are ammo containers.

posted by 42rocky on May 21st 2009 at 2:42pm
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42rocky --

Good eye - When my dad was in the military, he brought surplus ammo boxes like these home to hold his tools...

...so not worth $300.

posted by bepsf on May 21st 2009 at 3:43pm
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Look - The real thing w/ real markings for $16 each

http://www.armysurplusworld.com/display.asp?subDepartmentID=118

posted by bepsf on May 21st 2009 at 3:47pm
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The tins are sweet, and I love the actual, $16 source! I find the letterpress prints by Green Chair Press really adorable and just posted a few of my favorites on my blog this morning:

http://visualingual.wordpress.com/2009/05/21/map-prints-by-green-chair-press/

Then, someone pointed out that two closely resemble vintage book covers, and now I'm less enamored of them... Bummer.

posted by visualingual on May 21st 2009 at 5:08pm
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I just bought those Anthropologie mugs last night. God, I love sales.

posted by rosenatti on May 21st 2009 at 6:13pm
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@visualingual: There's some irony to Green Chair Press's appropriation, considering Benjamin's most famous essay is "Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction." :D

posted by rosenatti on May 21st 2009 at 6:23pm
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Too true; how meta.

posted by visualingual on May 21st 2009 at 6:53pm
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Number 9. Number 9. Number 9. Number 9. Number 9....

posted by Seaside on May 22nd 2009 at 12:30pm
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