Short Takes
December 16, 2010
A very good reason to make sure you are alive on May 27, 2011
That’s the opening of ‘The Tree of Life,’ written and directed by Terence Malick.
December 10, 2010
An iPad case that looks like a leather-bound book
This season, it looks as if “everyone” who doesn’t already have an iPad will be getting one. Know this: The iPad isn’t fragile, but it does need some protection. And there is your chance to make yours…special.
The BookBook is a zippered and padded leather case made specifically to give stylish protection to iPads. Handmade, so each is, as they say, “very unique.” Rigid, as a cover for a hardcover “book” should be. Useful in a second way, as an iPad stand. And, as a third, as a decoy to foil would-be thieves — I mean, who’s gonna steal a leather-bound book? The BookBook comes in black or red, and that is the hardest decision you’ll confront about this cool gift.December 1, 2010
FOR SALE: 2 of Dominick Dunne’s Club Chairs
At last week’s auction of Dominick Dunne’s furniture and memorabilia, we bought two blue damask-covered club chairs. They came yesterday, and we were, initially, delighted. Then we noticed that, in our living room, they seem small — they’d go better in a bedroom. Alas, we don’t need them there. So we want to find a new home for them. The text in the online catalogue: TWO VICTORIAN-STYLE UPHOLSTERED CLUB CHAIRS. Each with damask-pattern printed upholstery trimmed with bullion fringe, on turned legs; 28 1/2 x 26 1/2 x 29 1/4 in. and 28 3/4 x 28 1/2 x 28 in. Estimate: $400-$700. Sold at $550. Which is exactly what we’d like to sell them for. To see a dark picture of them, go to Stair Galleries. Click on past auctions. The Dunne auction is up top. This was lot #111. To see a lighter photo or to buy them, write me at HeadButlerNYC@AOL.com.
