HOLLYWOOD LOOKS FUN

Did you know they make 300,000 dollar tables?  Because I did not.  Because why on earth would they?  Who would buy one?  Well it turns out they do, and it turns out Brad Pitt would buy one.   Bloomberg news says…

Brad Pitt was among the buyers of contemporary "design art" furniture at the Design Miami/Basel fair in Switzerland, dealers said today.  He paid $293,000 for a hollow white marble rococo-style table by the Dutch designer Jeroen Verhoeven, Director Loic Le Gaillard said today.  "Most people come to Basel to look at contemporary art, but it's completely overwhelming,'' said Le Gaillard. “Then they come to the design fair and it's quiet. They can see contemporary works that are affordable and refreshingly accessible.''  Pitt's 4-foot-long "Cinderella Table'', from an edition of six, is hewn from a solid block of Carrara marble.  Pitt also ordered a rug made of aluminum thread from New York dealer Cristina Grajales.  The "Silver Sky" rug, created by Colombian designer Jorge Lizarazo and woven by the Colombian-based studio Hechizoo, will be priced at a rate of $175 per square foot.  The exact dimensions of the star's rug had yet to be specified.  Pitt was also interested in a gold lacquer-coated Fiberglas sofa by Zaha Hadid, offered by London-based dealer Kenny Schachter at $300,000.

This Kenny Schachter guy must be laughing his ass off right now.  A 300,000 dollar couch?  There’s no such thing.  There's nothing you can do to a couch to make it worth 300,000, unless maybe you stuffed it 296,000 dollars.  How GD comfortable can you really get?  In this context, 300,000 doesn’t even sound like a real number.  He might as well say it costs eighty hundred ten.