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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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Sami Reiss
Why hasn’t anyone come remotely close to Gaetano Pesce?
Love to Eddie Sutton of LEEWAY
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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 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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March 2024

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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Snake Q&A 024: Charlie Morgan
Author, scholar on Ralph, Dondi, Santa Fe, and the rich-guy Manhattan thrift triangle
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Snake Auction Observer 076: On very loud and super quiet furniture
Deals and all-timers on auction: Important (and rare) Danish leather, industrial Italian lamp, value couch buys, a lifetime investment dining table
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Pre-Sunset Snake Auction Observer 075: On boring art gallery chairs; a deep Christie's auction, Italy, bar stools
Componibili near NYC for dirt cheap, a Bellini competitor, the best couch I've seen since Presidents' Day
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Collected thoughts on Los Angeles
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 074: Lighting... Seating... Action
Thank you
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February 2024

Snake Auction Observer 073: The best week of auctions this year
Kartell, Castelli, Ponti, Wright, chairs, sofas, lighting, tables near NYC and cheap
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Snake Q&A 023: Andrew Mercer/Slowruin
Brooklyn seller on 500 redline Levi's, Kofod Larsen, $3 Contax T2 and more
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