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May 13th, 2010

About two years ago, I was out dining at Gusto Organics with a few friends when I came across this multi-colored tip jar. It was an incredibly clever use of paperclips and I snapped a pic without giving it a second thought. Fast forward to the International Gift Fair from this past January. With the fabulous home goods editor, Amy Preiser by my side, we traversed aisle after aisle of decorative tchotchkes, taking note of what to expect for the coming year. When we hit the British gift booth, NPW, we stopped in our tracks at these number clips. Amy thought they were the cutest things she’d ever seen and I couldn’t believe the tip jar from years back was seeing a corporate revival. Fast forward five more months and we now have Barney’s spring catalog. The [...]

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