MOVIE: Dumpster Diving on the Upper West Side, NY
WHAT'S cheaper and chicer than finding a rococo chaise at Goodwill for a song? Pouncing on a pair of apple green boudoir chairs turfed on the pavement!
That's exactly what fellow Aussie Sarhys Page and I did after emerging from a cheap'n'choosy night at the Hudson Hotel.
I say a c'n'c because the cooler-than-thou Hudson, like so many multi-million yen hotels, may be enjoyed for the mere price of a drink, no velvet rope suffered. Forget clubs with attitude plus, that's what the hospitality industry is all about, right? On this night I was carousing with the first person to give me a break in advertising downunder some 15 years ago, John Doorley, and budding Aussie actress Sarhys (pronounced Sar-reece), who happened to feature in the same issue of Aussie interview journal Dumbo Feather as I.
Planet pequeña!
But I digress ...
We stumbled out stone cold sober as you do on a c'n'c binge, to see this pair of ornate chairs perched on the pavement beside a pile of garbage bags.
"Oooooh, they'll match my kitchen perfectly!" squealed Sarhys. We hoisted them on our shoulders and made for the subway, getting all kinds of spontaneous comments from bemused security guards and the general public.
"You know you want 'em, getcha hairy eyeball off 'em!" yelled Sarhys over her shoulder in true blue Strine.
On riding them down the escalators (see the video) we faced envy as green as the fake leather upholstery.
"Ooooh, they'll match my kitchen perfectly!" squealed a woman to her friend. "I'll give you 30 bucks each for them!"
"Twenty bucks each," hissed a black gentleman lurking beside a post.
"Not enough!" shouted Sarhys.
"Tell him fifty!" advised another woman.
On the train we had the best seats in the carriage. I offered my seat to a fur trimmed matron with pursed lips who pursed them even tighter and looked the other way.
I left Sarhys to get them all the way to Bushwick in Brooklyn, where they now adorn her kitchenette.
"My housemates love 'em!" she texted.
Now this is what you really call .. Design Within Reach.
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1 comments:
Those chairs really are the find of the century here in NYC!!! I've found stuff on the street, but nothing as stylish as those lime thrones!
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