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lab chick.
(or pr person for apartment therapy)
you missed my point.
theres more to design than people just getting stuff cheap.
i assume you think all the fashion knock offs on canal st are ok as well. (thats my industry, though id rather be an artist working for bddw)
its fine that you feel that way but it does make you dumb.

im aware most people cant afford even the pottery barn mirror. (if by "most people" you mean the majority of people that live in the world then the pottery barn mirror is the equivalent of several months salary. both mirrors are pretty ridiculous to "most" people.
but again i wasnt talking about simply getting stuff cheap. i was talking about how its a bummer that no one here seems to care about the situation i described above.

to the people working in factories around the world for pennies making things like the PB mirror its sad.
and when PB is doing it on the backs of other designers
who employ craftsmen for a living wage
its sad to us, whether you can afford original stuff or not.
im generally frustrated when people just want stuff cheap.
(walmart trampling?)
the mirror i own clearly has many hours of hand work in it, and its made in brooklyn. the pottery barn mirror is one of a million stamped out in some exploited country. in the last 20 years ive watched my industry move 99% of its manufacturing overseas a sad loss and then knock offs made by "the pottery barns" and canal st costs design companies more jobs, which cost ad companies and magazines which cost landlords which costs builders etc.
which are regular folks like you and me that buy the pottery barn mirrors. (or save and buy the bddw as patricks post above)

i dont fault you so much
or the consumer.
i fault "the pottery barns" for breaking laws and copying designs and gutting our culture turning it into a "get the look" out of control consumerism and aprtment therapy for being a banner for them.
(o wait, you work for apartment therapy so i do fault you)