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Weekend Snake Auction Observer 080: Is outdoor furniture really different than indoors furniture? And the simplicity of vases
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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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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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Snake Auction Observer 074: Lighting... Seating... Action
Thank you
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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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Free Snake Auction Observer 072: Luxury is no longer apart
Hangover-free furniture, leather, NOS lamps, Gucci handcuffs and the end of luxury as an edict from on high
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Near-Emergency Late Nite Snake Auction Observer 071: A Tuesday auction with something for everyone
Knoll, Rietveld, severe steal couches under $200, Kita, a few B+ options that are mega cheap
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Late Nite Snake Auction Observer 070: The only bad Sottsass; rainbow van der Rohe; a crazy 1940s bed, the best sofa of 2022, thoughts on…
Plus: cheap stools, Knoll. Eames screens, lifting advice
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Snake Auction Observer 069: The ashtray as design gateway; plastic, plastic, plastic; rare espresso machine, Cassina's best chair dirt cheap…
Plus two differing takes on Gehry's wood hockey chairs and enough plastic to shink a fishing skiff
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