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they had a floor sample at a good discount for sale at the MoMA store on Spring street. It's a nice french post office shade of yellow. I saw it last Sunday-- it may still be there!

The Livingstones look interesting, but I can't the website's not in English, so I can't tell the price (if it's even on there.)

I have a love/hate relationships with Slinks today!

Hate = the Hanabi light when open reminds me of a beautiful cactus flower. When closed, however, it looks a bit like a used condom. Hmmm, you could hang this above your bedside table to light up the condom pot?
I want to like the ceramic flip colander, but it's the same design as my toilet bowl brush holder. And the canine anus for your kitchen towels? Let's not even go there.

Love = Nama Rococo wallpaper is yum. And those Livingstones. Also, the man on top of the Livingstones.

The Bloomin' Bulb: And when the light goes off, it closes and grabs your uncle's toupee.

LOVE LOVE LOVE the Livingstones. It's Swedish, not French, and the bablefish translator doesn't have Swedish as an option. Sorry, I may have Swedish genetics, but the linguistics just aren't there. But I wish all those Livingstones were here!

Wallpaper: I thought someone else had done the chalkboard paint and/or used chalk on their home, like Jane and Darko and Shauna. Bet chalk would be cheaper than the wallpaper.

The Condom Pot: How long before that lid gets broken when reaching over with a hand covered in chocolate syrup, honey, and whipped cream?

Dog End Towel Holder: No comment.

Wi-fi umbrella: Do we really need to be wi-fi connected and look at the umbrella handle to figure out that the repetitive moisture falling on our heads is not the act of several construction workers spitting?

Ceramic Flip Colinder: How long do you think it will be before it gets broken when reaching over with a hand covered in soap, or honey, whipping cream, or other berry toppings.

Why is it I always need a man to point out the men in the pictures? I didn't even see him as a man, just a person who was background to the furniture, and who appeared to be very comfortable. I like comfortable. So I tossed him out of the picture and was reclining there myself. And then Nigel mentions "...the man on top..."

***flushing furiously***

Andree, your post left me in stitches. It sounds like there are all kinds of fun things going on over at your house which require restricted use of ceramics!
I agree about the wi-fi umbrella too. If I'm feeling "high-tech", I can check the weather online. If I'm feeling less lazy, I can stick my head out the window and decide if I need an umbrella or not.
I bet that Nama Rococo wallpaper costs a fortune. As much as I love it, it would be cheaper to do the chalkboard paint and sketch out a design like that. Plus then it is changeable, which is great if you are fickle like me. It's also washable, good for if your hands are often covered with honey or whipped cream.

If we're going to subvert the boundaries between clean and dirty (that's the academic way to say "be icky") with the dog-end towel-holder, let's go all the way...

...Limited edition sculptings of famous (or particularly aesthetic) derrieres, signed and numbered... ready to hold your tea towels, tissues, scarf collection... or maybe combine the functionality with the little colored pots above.

Just slap me now. It'll save everyone a lot of trouble.

Andree quoth: "Why is it I always need a man to point out the men in the pictures? I didn't even see him as a man, just a person who was background to the furniture, and who appeared to be very comfortable."

Two reasons:

(1) Women get used to seeing men used as props in shelter and fashion magazines. We've read the articles and know that the guy in the picture is usually slightly less important to the design than a vase of flowers on the table.

(2) A number of men here are extremely unlikely to fail to notice a good-looking half-naked man.

Now that I scrutinize it, that pose is more suggestive than I realized. The positioning of the pillows! Good grief!

re: Livingstones picture

There was furniture in that shot?!? :)

Patrick, ditto. I assumed, of course, that Livingstones was the man. Mr. Lloyd Livingstones, relaxing on some sort of beanbag and staring at the gorgeous ocean view.

There was an ocean view in that shot??!

Nigel, yes, there's a virtual funhouse here, a real laff riot. All this tooth-decaying pleasure is happening with me and me alone. The last thing I did with condoms was for a school project...I decorated a miniature Christmas tree with them, and rewrote the 12 days of Christmas to include various sex toys and safe sex practices (it was for a Human Sexuality class, I never passed up "extra credit" options).

Wende, if I wanted an ass in the kitchen, I would have stayed married.

Now, where was that coat hanger that looked like a hand with a finger flexed to hold coats? I just saw that, and the first thing I thought of was that it was a hands-free nose-picker.

I blame Maxwell. He's the one that put up the dog-ass-towel-holder.

OMG! Hilarious! I saw everything but the man. Yes, of course, and the ladder represents an erect male appendage and has nothing to do with a way of getting to another place. And the position of the livingstone recliner is properly juxtopositioned to symbolize...

Wait, Wende, I don't get it, what about the positioning of the pillows?

Andree, actually, the livingstones are French; see http://www.livingstones.fr/ . The link provided is to a retail place in Sweden that sells them.

Even for me, sometimes a ladder is just a ladder.

Andree, on the pillow pose, you had it with "male appendage."

The ladder is all about getting up.

Andree--
Isn't this the "witty banter" you said you don't read?

That dog needs to be neutered.

I mean the towel holder, of course.

Whew, for a minute I thoought you meant me.

Thought ya might, P2. You're safe from me.

I've had to actually pull things out of my dogs' toots before. That towel holder is going to haunt my dreams. Funny though. In a twisted way.

Why, oh why when I saw the picture of little (hehe) doggie I immediately thought "expect P(2)'s comments!"?

Are you that predictable, P?

Tat--
For the record, I steered clear of the dog. And jumped instead on the man. So to speak.

It was Pat's threat of neutering that grabbed my, er, "attention."

:)

Ah, attention to 'the man' (a boy, really - and no, I don't want to mother him) is a given.

I appreciate your restraint re: the dog.

Have a great weekend! The next week (and the next one after that) will be too tiring, with all the info and parties.

Patrick, yeah, but I did one of my longer posts that nobody reads...and for a change, I wasn't the excluded long posting person. I was INCLUDED. It's the case of "You had to be there" (and included) to enjoy the witty banter.

Wende: Oh. Well, I guess if the pillows are rectangular, they aren't suggestive. I sleep like that sometimes, with a pillow on each side for my arms and shoulders. Eh?

K: THANKS! Now I can use the translator! For folks that aren't familiar, there's a translator here:
http://babelfish.altavista.com/
You enter the web address in the "translate a web page" area, and it will pull up the page in the languages it has available.

Except all the text is in "photo" form, and photos don't translate. There is translatable text in the gallery. And not a retailer on this continent.

I hope those have covers and can be removed and washed. I can't imagine taking the big sizes into the dry cleaners and I know Surefit doesn't make sofa-rock slipcovers.

Well, I do love those. Kinda Flintstones, oui?

There is something disturbing about the "stones" photo, and it's not the sexuality spoken of above. I finally figured it out. The fabric on the chairs looks like bandaging for wounds, or the material used for athletic braces. It looks like that guy is lying on a giant piece of medical something-er-other. I get an overall feeling of illness.

I do like the smaller pieces by the window, though.

Wende, this one's for you! "Rump Tables":
http://www.marklevin.com/

Click on the link on the left side under Photo Gallery.

Andree, the rump table with two drawers would probably look really good in my LR... plus there'd be the party fun of waiting to see which guests noticed what it really represents.