About two seconds after reading
Jonathan Adler's book, I became obsessed with the faux bamboo chippendale chairs he uses from room to room in his design. (above picture is an example). You can buy them for $495-550 each
here, but if you are me, you cannot buy them there or your credit card will max out and you won't be able to eat for four months, so off I went on the hunt for the faux bamboo chippendales of my dreams (for less). The hunt lasted eight months. I would go to the shoe department at Barneys and pretend to try on shoes so I could sit in them (Adler designed the Dallas Barneys and used his chairs). I became so infatuated with these chairs
I even painted a picture of one. And then it happened. I found them featured at an upcoming estate sale. Six of them. I knew my friend Hannah was looking for two (and I needed four), so we got to the sale first and got to the chairs first and mission accomplished. You don't want to know how much of a bargain we got because if you bought the Adler ones full price you will cry.
Hannah, of course, painted hers robin's egg blue because if Hannah could find a robin's egg food coloring she would only eat robin's egg-colored food, and if robin's egg blue was a town she would move there. She secretly wishes she was a bird so she could actually create robin's eggs because she loves it so much.
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