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Seeing how luxury has become very mass-market and frankly dull, I thought these products were the exact antithesis to that impulse.
Snake-skin covered gentleman's shooting stick with hidden parasol.
Crocodile skin desk set by Dupre-Lafont for Hermes.
Matching warthog-tusk boot-pulls.
Tortoise-shell picture frame.
For the gambler--sterling silver cigarette case with matching set of die.
Shagreen handled malakawood walking stick.
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i do support your views on anti-mass items....
A bit of originality is essential and that's why the bespoke market is slowly increasing to respond to the current need for items to be more personal or to have an history attached to them..
I do love antiques and objects of the past even if i do not share your taste for ivory for personal reasons...:crackup:
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I hope you have a pair of bespoke button boots to use that button hook on.
My suggestion would be to go to Stephano Bremer, who has made a pair with silk velvet uppers woven on historic looms especially for a Kremlin interior renovation project. If you can get hold of some Russian reindeer for the base of the boot, it would be a match made in heaven. Suggestions for the buttons include mother of pearl - although I am sure you could think of something a bit more exotic than that.
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Sir,
As a boy I used to weep at the sight of a matching pair of warthog-tusk boot-pulls.
Those were the days.
Ever yours,
Smith.
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I do love antiques and the times where an object was celebrated in a different angle than their pure functionality.....
Great objects....
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Sir,
It makes one content to know that other admirers of the gentle art of beautiful objects is present among us. One is endlessly complemented by your gracious presence.
Etc. and yours,
LK
I love how they used beautiful, natural materials to make the things. Certainly a huge difference from today's Function Over Form and all that awful plastic and 99 Cent Made in China dross.
I'm thinking lacquered scarab exoskeletons that have been set in rose gold.
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Lighters made out of polished artillery shells:
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Very post 1914-1918 conflict ,using very realistic and deadly material and giving them a new lease of life (instead of death)...
i love antiques and the treatment of everyday materials making them noble....
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For the office:
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Yesterday at Isetan Men's in Shinjuku, I discovered the only store display of Nakaya fountain pens. They do not advertise and are otherwise only available by custom order. Needless to say, now that I have inspected one in the flesh, I'm going to order a custom pen. I'm hoping they'll make me an eyedropper filler. Though anachronistic, it's a much more elegant method of filling than the cartridge/converter system.
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Ah, Shinjuku Isetan... recipient of more of my paychecks than I really want to admit. What a place... I think it's probably the only place on earth where a gentleman could spend a million bucks in a few hours and still not have everything that catches his eye...
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This is what it is all about, rare items, de luxe.
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Asprey silver and snakeskin thermos:
Dunhill Lighters, including a Metric Ruler Lighter.
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Yes, Nakaya fountain pens are very beautiful--the urushi version is the best one. One of the minor quibbles I have with them though, is that they use a cartridge-converter system; but they also have that lovely goldfish cartridge.
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Would these items qualify?
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