Posted on 11/28/2017 6:58:25 PM PST by sparklite2
Do you ever look at the coffee can on your shelf and think, “I wish this was gaudy!” When drinking from a straw, do you feel like it could do more to reflect your income? Worry no more, Tiffany & Co. has you covered. Once a place for the elegant and refined, the company has launched an “everyday objects” line, evidently targeting the gauche.
Among those items are a sterling silver coffee can for $1,500, a sterling silver crazy straw, and a $9,000 ball of yarn (also in sterling silver). Not every object in the collection is silver, though most of them are. There are cups that may look like they are made of paper, but they’re actually bone china ($95 for a pair), and ping pong paddles in “reclaimed American walnut” and leather for only $650. OK, fine, the ping pong paddles have sterling silver accents. What are we, animals?
(Excerpt) Read more at acculturated.com ...
Actually, they’ve made a lot of junk stuff like this for a fairly long time, at least 15-20 years.
A public corporation with leftist activists and hedge funds as managers and directors is ultimately going to go down the toilet. The push will always be for profits, debt service, and short-term politics.
“Actually, they’ve made a lot of junk stuff like this for a fairly long time, at least 15-20 years.”
I have been divorced for 7 or 8 years and I remember seeing this kind of stuff in the catalog.
The Victorian era had luxury versions for every household item that the existed.
Commerce is commerse.
What would be the point of a silver crazy straw?
The fun of a crazy straw is watching the liquid climb through the straw. You can’t see through silver.
>>>The fun of a crazy straw is watching the liquid climb through the straw. You can’t see through silver<<<
They will only sell one, to Superman.
Tiffany’s is a pathetic overpriced joke
ping
Sounds like a Gwyneth Paltrow collection.
LOL
Poor Tiffany’s, they’re becoming the buggy whip salesmen of the new millenium.
Kids these days don’t want their parents’ bricabrac, and to them, luxury means having a fancier phone than your friend/neighbor/”the poors”...
Tiff missed out on that market entirely, and I doubt that a filigreed silver phone case will get them there.
And personally, I prefer my bricabrac functional ... and parkerized (or blued)...
Tiffany still has nice things in their catalogs and stores. And I love their miniature displays at Christmas on Fifth Avenue.
To a lesser extent, Sony did this. They used to be an above average electronics brand. Sometime in the 80’s they went down market. Not saying their product isn’t good, just not in the upper echelon of electronics like it was in the 70’s.
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