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Before I lived in Los Angeles (for only a month, the other month), I wanted to move there, but I only knew the city from what I had read about it in…

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Snake Auction Observer 079: Buy the small stuff first—AKA why clocks and lamps are like designer handbags

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Snake Auction Observer 079: Buy the small stuff first—AKA why clocks and lamps are like designer handbags

Severe deals auctions: An Italian designer's never-before-seen bookcase, perfect lamps, value chairs

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Snake Auction Observer 078: The T-shirt theory of buying furniture; five prime-tier cheap designer couches, Italy and France

The theory: We must all get loose and BMF. Plus deals and auction hits: The best mirror ever made (that is a loud mirror), all-time Italian, a 1920s…

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Snake Auction Observer 077: Good ideas are overrated; a dozen dirt cheap god-tier couches

Many deals, some all-timers on auction: The best (Italian) lamp of all time (hidden), hits from Europe, a panoply of tasteful teak, and a stool destined…

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Ghostly label founder on Suede poster, CD longboxes, arcade ephemera, Suede poster

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Snake Q&A 025: Zack Wuerthner/Shining Life

The deepest and best publicly available hardcore shirt collection in the world

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Snake Q&A 024: Charlie Morgan

Author, scholar on Ralph, Dondi, Santa Fe, and the rich-guy Manhattan thrift triangle

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