Woman's lower half as wooden end table

Posted by David Pescovitz, February 4, 2008 10:46 AM | permalink

This curious hand-carved wooden table from the 1950s is up for auction on eBay right now. Starting bid is US$350.
Link (Thanks, Michael-Anne Rauback!)

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#1 posted by jhomeresq , February 4, 2008 11:01 AM

This strikes me as more of a degas homage than a random woman's lower half...
http://graphics.jsonline.com/graphics/owlive/img/sep04/degas_ballerina_092204_big.jpg

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#2 posted by Santa's Knee , February 4, 2008 11:08 AM

Darren McGavin's next prize, after the leg lamp.

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#3 posted by Takuan , February 4, 2008 11:14 AM

it's a major award

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#4 posted by David Pescovitz , February 4, 2008 11:30 AM

@JHOMERESQ (#1), Maybe so! Thanks for the link to the Degas piece.

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#5 posted by farrellmcgovern , February 4, 2008 11:33 AM

Reminds me of the ZZ Top video...tanj, can't remember the name of the song the video is for...But it's also kind of creepy.

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#6 posted by Gloria , February 4, 2008 11:35 AM

@1: That's the first thing that came to my mind as well.

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#7 posted by Nelson.C , February 4, 2008 11:45 AM

It reminds me of these lamps I saw in Akihabara:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/nelc/1289468885/

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#8 posted by ill lich , February 4, 2008 11:48 AM

the Chromeo guys should grab this.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Chromeo_Fancy_Footwork.jpg

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#9 posted by nilesgibbs , February 4, 2008 11:49 AM

@3: Fra-gee-lay. That must be Italian.

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#10 posted by Logical Extremes

, February 4, 2008 11:59 AM

Even better than the one in A Christmas Story.

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#11 posted by mellowknees

, February 4, 2008 12:01 PM

I am reminded of this ridiculousness:

http://www.designtoscano.com/product/home+accents/lighting/exotic+and+novelty+lighting/mademoiselle+haute+couture+floor+lamp+-+yb5020.do

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#12 posted by dannysland , February 4, 2008 12:15 PM

Maybe it's designed for putting something like this on it...

http://tinyurl.com/2yvaxv

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#13 posted by hipdadiddy , February 4, 2008 12:35 PM

Are we sure it's just a table? That it didn't come from, say, the Ed Gein estate...?

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#14 posted by arkizzle , February 4, 2008 1:00 PM

#12

not very pretty.

http://www.uploadgeek.com/uploads456/0/arkizzle-badmix.jpg

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#15 posted by arkizzle , February 4, 2008 2:34 PM

hmm.. annoyingly that link ^^ seems to pop to immediate-download. copy & paste to the address bar for a browser-view..

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#16 posted by Wulf , February 4, 2008 5:21 PM

This is remarkably like a prop built for a production of the opera "The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat" at the Banff Centre for the Arts in 1993. One of those universal ideas, I guess.
http://www.banffcentre.ca/theatre/images/op93_mistook_set1.jpg

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#17 posted by noen , February 4, 2008 7:01 PM

This is only tangentially related to the Degas ballerina sculpture. Not really even the same pose. Why do guys need to have female body parts around them in order to feel "manly"? No wait... don't answer that.

BTW guys, did you know that you can put your links in a standard html tag and it won't break the page formating? You're supposed to be geeks, how about doing something geeky and learning to write some basic markup?

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#18 posted by DickStock , February 4, 2008 9:54 PM

It looks uncomfortably close to that old gag: "What's the definition of the Perfect Woman".

(Four feet tall, no teeth, and a flat head to put your drink on.)
Hey, I didn't write it~!

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#19 posted by arkizzle , February 5, 2008 3:55 AM

#17
I agree, I don't think it's even remotely related to the Degas, different pose, different intention.. just different.

However I am pretty disappointed to find my home is entirely deficient in female body parts, unlike the rest of the guys on this board, apparently.
I was wondering why it was that I felt so masculinely incomplete, so I'm going to buy a sharp knife and some duct tape on my way home and see if I can fulfil Noen's perceptions of a man being manly.

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#20 posted by pinkpicnic , February 5, 2008 7:55 AM

Yay! More products designed like disembodied parts of women! Gee, guys, thank goodness it's the right half!

Fuck a lotta this.