Saturday, January 15, 2005

Thanks for the drabware

The Martha Stewart Catalog for Living is shutting down and selling all remaining stock. A lot of what was in it was sold at too high a mark-up. Sometimes Martha Stewart brought something back into popularity and then somebody closer to home could sell it at a cheaper price. For instance, the Container Store started stocking those old American Anchor glass screw-top storage jars. She also reissued old transfer-ware patterns, but I don't think that she was any more successful with it than Williams-Sonoma was a few years ago. She brought back the older, better-shaped drabware cups. I think that drabware had been out of production entirely for some years until Martha Stewart revived production. In practically no time at all since the announcement, nearly everything is sold out. Except, of course, for some of the transfer-ware.

3 Comments:

At 4:14 PM, October 12, 2007, Blogger mtrentham said...

Searching with longing for some of the gilded Martha Stewart Drabware. I found your post, and then did a surprised dance to find a blogging luddite here in Austin. I'm in the close, yet so far, 78741.

 
At 4:46 PM, October 12, 2007, Blogger Rantor said...

Check out Replacements. I regard this outfit as trustworthy and have ordered various bits of silver and of china and earthenware, including my favorite shape of drabware cups, from them.
http://www.replacements.com/

 
At 4:52 PM, October 12, 2007, Blogger Rantor said...

I forgot to say that it's possible to sign up to receive notifications when a particular pattern comes into stock. The descriptions of condition are entirely accurate.

 

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