
Blue Dress Silver Accessories
In Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Holly Golightly rolls up to the acclaimed jeweler in a little atramentous dress, croissant in hand, to boring at necklaces and earrings and dream of a bigger life. To best people, that activity does not accommodate a $1,000 tin can.
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And yet decades later, actuality we are.
Tiffany & Co is selling a "tin can" for $1,000.
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["589.76"]The admirable argent can, streaked with dejected enamel, is allotment of the store's Everyday Objects line. That line additionally includes items like a $900 brawl of yarn, a $350 crazy harbinger in argent and rose-colored gilding, and a argent beanie fabricated to attending like a Chinese-food takeout container.
As Tiffany’s website states, the reason the can costs about as abundant as an iPhone X is that “beautiful things shouldn’t aloof alive in a drawer. Handcrafted in admirable silver, apply and wood, this new accumulating elevates acceptable appointment food and accessories into works of art meant to become admired pieces you use every day.”
The aestheticization of the "everyday" and the amount tags absorbed to them drew some acidity on amusing media.
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There is additionally the actuality that the tin can does not arise to contain actual tin. Rather, the can, which can be hand-engraved for an added $45 or mechanically engraved at a lower cost, is fabricated of admirable silver.
The can itself may absolutely actually be account it, or at atomic abutting to the amount of the argent acclimated to accomplish it. In the accepted bazaar amount for admirable silver, absolute tin costs article like 55 cents per ounce, while argent is closer to about $17 per ounce. According to Gizmodo, the tin cans we apperceive and adulation are usually fabricated from animate and alone lined with tin. Older processes adulterated tin with added metals like advance (the two were accumulated by soldering)—so at atomic the Tiffany's can has the absence of anything physically baneful in it.
While the amount is absolutely something, absent adorned things is barefaced in assertive contexts. One could brainstorm a admiration for a really, absolutely nice brace of ping-pong paddles (yes, Tiffany’s is affairs those too) if money were no object, and if one had a ping-pong table at which to use said paddles. To say the aforementioned for a butt whose advertised use—other than “[elevating] acceptable appointment food and accessories into works of art meant to become admired pieces you use every day” and attractive actual expensive—appears to be captivation several pencils would be added than a bit of a stretch.
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Tiffany’s did not acknowledge to a appeal for animadversion by time of publication.
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