SEPTEMBER 30, TUESDAY

ACRYLIC RED CHAIR

In the afternoon I went into a new store on Main Street called the Honey Hole. In it are about ten separate spaces, each full of antiques and brightly colored objects with the whole store a dazzling experience. What dazzled me most were two ruby red acrylic chairs by the front door. I couldn’t resist buying one, not to sit in, just to put into a bright light and look at.

I don’t know what a red acrylic chair is worth. I guess it’s worth what I was willing to pay, $85. I’ve learned long ago in India that when you enter an elegant store and something catches your eye, that the object, sold for not much in the village where it is made, is not the true value of the object. I am also paying a finder’s fee to the person who searched it out and placed it in the elegant store, as well as the cost of operating the elegant store. Most of the beautiful things that I have bought in India I never would have found on my own. So I am not disturbed that I am paying much more for an object than the person who made it received. The same is true of this red chair. I am including a photograph of how it finally appears in my apartment under a mobile from Denmark that I bought a month ago in Lincoln, England.