i have those wine bottles! {i tried to recreate their picture, but their's totally won out. you get the gist though.}
first i looked at the price and could.not.be.lieve.my.eyes. for those three bottles the total cost was $557! just in case you didn't say the numbers in your head you can read it - that's FIVE HUNDRED FIFTY SEVEN DOLLARS! WWWHHHAAATTT??? i then read the description and low and behold they were from hungary! the very place i got mine! but i DID NOT pay FIVE HUNDRED FIFTY SEVEN DOLLARS for them. no way!! and i didn't walk into a store and buy them {not that there's anything wrong with that}, but mine come with a pretty unique story. wanna hear it? good, cause i'm gonna tell it and then i'll tell you what i paid for mine.
i wish i could remember the name of the place where we went, but i can't. :( it was about 45 minutes from the budapest city centre. i went with my friend, kristina, and her friend stacy, who is a buyer for a company called europe2you who ships items like these wine bottles and pottery and all sorts of things over to the usa to sell them - with a much bigger price tag! {she may even own it, i can't remember} we went to this warehouse with dusty antique furniture stacked to the ceiling. the owners name was janos and oddly enough after this meeting i saw him all over town! at the mall, walking down my street several times {we lived on budapest's antique street}, and at the train station at like 6:00 in the morning one time! anyway, he didn't speak any english, but he could understand some and stacy spoke a tiny bit of hungarian so they made it work. why didn't i get a piece of furniture? i don't know! i wish i would have now! kristina did and she's so happy she did. i'm happy i left with some wine bottles though. i thought they were a nice piece of hungary to take back with me. there were tons of them getting washed up and ready to be shipped to the usa. i picked three and paid janos about 9200 HUF, about $50 USD!
eat your heart out pottery barn!! :)
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What a great story - and bargain! I saw those little swiss rolly chair/stool things you have for the kids at a toy store in NB - priced at 29.99 - didn't think it was too bad a price but I imagine bought without overseas S&H were much less too!
does andre mean kismotos?
this IS a great story. too bad you couldn't put a pic of yours next to pb's. and let that be a lesson to everyone who likes to buy pb stuff {not that there's anything wrong with that; i just received my pb order last week}. being able to buy those bottles in hungary and have the company ship them back for you does count for something!
Nice.
My mother-in-law just sent me a magazine clipping for Polish pottery. 4x's the amount that I can get it for in Poland. I'm so excited, we (the ladies) are taking a trip in two weeks to stock up.
i finally am checking the blog this morning . . . love this post! i think you did a great job recreating the PB picture!
The ones in potterybarn must have flown to the US first class. :)
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