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"PRETTY" FURNITURE? HOW QUAINT | January 9th 2008
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What's with all the ugly new chairs? The cartoonish lamps? Cliff Kuang tries to explain why someone might spend tens of thousands of dollars on a coffee table that looks like a wad of nicotine gum ...
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