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Nope, it's not from his dark materials. it is fking awesome though.

Restoration Hardware has fitted sheets that are 18" deep too.

If consumers became aware of this massive waste, this could pose a serious problem for retailers operating under this model. Some might choose to recover discarded goods rather than purchasing the very same goods in the store. On a large enough scale, this could substantially cut into profits. It thus becomes doubly important for stores to keep this waste out of public sight. And besides, the image of people scouring through a store’s dumpsters distracts customers from the singleminded focus on the store and its for-sale products that retailers hope to instill in consumers as their “shopping experience.”

An increasing number of retailers discard goods in compactors that destroy merchandise and make it inaccessible to any who would seek to recover it. Some retailers have employees destroy merchandise before discarding it. DVDs are deliberately scratched to the point of uselessness. In some cases, food. is ground and mixed with water. Publications carry small print indicating that they cannot be sold if they are missing covers, and retailers are required to tear off the covers upon discarding them in exchange for a manufacturer refund.

Yet destruction of the product CONCEPT associated with goods may be even more powerful. We are led to believe that the goods presented to us in stores are safe, effective, desirable, and worth the money we are spending on them. We have spent lifetimes hearing adages such as, “There’s no such thing as a free lunch”, designed to convince us that only hard work at joyless jobs can guarantee our survival. We are left with the impression that anything we aren’t required to pay for can’t possibly be worth having. We therefore assume that discarded goods must be unsafe, ineffective, unusable, or otherwise undesirable. Stripping away the marketing attached to goods, it becomes apparent that neither assumption is true—the goods sold to us aren’t necessarily good for us, and the ones discarded aren’t necessarily bad. A discarded apple in a dumpster, for example carries far less food poisoning risk than a packaged cut of beef still on sale in a supermarket.

from this article which is long, but V.g.
http://freegan.info/?page=Product

Where is that cool yellow pendant light from??

Beautiful!

Aveda!

Haha, I like it!