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i think its a little ridiculous that you would pay that much for a side table. you could easily contract a carpenter to the same thing for half the price.

yeah, price too steep, but check out that lamp!

yeah, that lamp is gorgeous!

It is really pretty. I love a lot of the things in the Mitchell Gold line. However that price is preposterous for a bed side table. Much like what happened to Dwell Magazing this whole site seems to be increasingly out of touch with reality. It's one thing to advocate clean simple beautiful design, but it's quite another to fetishize pieces and places that many of the readers could never afford or attain.

Not outrageous compared to places like Baker and Ralph Lauren Hime.

It's all relative, so, Huntley, this is not out of touch with everyone's reality...

Anyone who would pay a thousand dollars for a veneer table that size deserves to be ripped off. They don't say what the substrate is, but it is most likely MDF. So how is this worth ten times more than the $99 IKEA would charge for an identical item? Any custom shop in the country will make this for you in superior quality out of whatever solid wood you want for well under that price, and you'll be supporting the local economy.

a grand for that table is way out of line... and i build custom furniture for a living!

Then you are not charging enough.

"Elegant, perfectly sized, and light visually" doesn't always come cheap. Nor should it.