Tag Archive | "dishware"

Significant Dishware

Saturday, September 26, 2009

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It occurs to me that you could set a table with the 16-odd items of dishware that our participating authors have so brilliantly and entertainingly significated. Here’s what such a table might look like. PLATES & SAUCERS The narrator of Sarah Rainone’s first-person story picked the Ireland Cow Plate up at a mysterious general store because “there [...]

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Hawaiian Utensils

Wednesday, September 16, 2009

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[The auction for this Significant Object, with story by Stephen Elliott, has ended. Original price: $1.99. Final price: $4.24.] I bought these Hawaiian utensils, a wooden spoon and fork, while living in Alaska in the mid-eighties with my first wife. We were living outside the Eskimo village Wales on the western edge of the state, three [...]

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Uncola Glass

Tuesday, September 15, 2009

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[The auction for this Significant Object, with story by Jen Collins, has ended. Original price: $2. Final price: $20.50.] For my 9th birthday, I begged my mother to take me to the iron-on decal store at the Meadow Glen Mall. I had seen some older boy wearing a sweatshirt with a glittery rip-off of the Superman [...]

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Coconut Cup

Friday, September 11, 2009

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[The auction for this Significant Object, with story by Annalee Newitz, has ended. Original price: 25 cents. Final price: $10.] At this point most people realize that getting marketers involved in space travel is a bad idea. But fifty years ago, right before the Martian economy collapsed, there was a craze for luxury space cruises [...]

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Kentucky Dish

Tuesday, September 8, 2009

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[The auction for this Significant Object, with story by Dean Haspiel, has ended. Original price: $2. Final price: $6.75.] Kentucky reminds me of my first and, probably, only encounter with a friend whom aliens had, supposedly, abducted. In the late 1980s, I co-created and drew a comic book mini-series with a writer who lived in Kentucky. [...]

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Marines (Upside-Down) Logo Mug

Tuesday, August 18, 2009

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[The auction for this Significant Object, with story by Tom Vanderbilt, has ended. Original price: 75 cents. Final price: $37. This story was part of a special collaboration with Design Observer, where it was co-published here.] If he had a personal philosophy, and if such things needed to be articulated, it might be called: the aerodynamics [...]

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Star of David Plate

Monday, August 17, 2009

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[The auction for this Significant Object, with story by Adam Harrison Levy, has ended. Original price: $2. Final price: $15.50. This story was part of a special collaboration with Design Observer, where it is co-published here.] Now that Budd Schulberg has died, the story of how I stole this plate from him can finally be told. [...]

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Ireland Cow Plate

Thursday, August 6, 2009

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[The auction for this Significant Object, with story by Sarah Rainone, has ended. Original price: $1. Final price: $41.] As my husband and I were driving back to New York after my mother’s funeral, I spotted a general store on the Rhode Island-Connecticut border, the kind that exist solely for those who forgot to bring something [...]

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Smiling Mug

Tuesday, July 7, 2009

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[The auction for this Significant Object, with story by Ben Greenman, has ended. Original price: $2. Final price: $32.08.] This object is best known from its appearance in the 1939 film No News From The Navy, a comedy starring James Wilton as a hapless midshipman who cannot set aside his seafaring ways, even when he is [...]

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