One of the things an impending wedding has led to is considerably more time in home outfitting shops of various sorts. I’ve found that impending need and/or possible means makes a visit to Ikea or Crate and Barrel considerably more attractive than they had been hitherto. But sometimes I need a break.
And that’s what I thought I’d get as I visited the toilets in the Michigan Avenue Crate and Barrel yesterday, but it was not to be. The only item of note in the small room was an exceedingly mediocre still-life piece, of a set of bright red flowers. When we were studying art in school, we were always told that such things would get mediocre grades. They show technical proficiency (just about) but little idea of the expressiveness of art.
And yet this piece was $169 + tax.
It’s not that hard to get to a gallery, folks.
[Being in the US, I may be blogging slightly less regularly. I may even take a weekend off.]