Inappropriation

CB2, $79.95

Christien Meindertsma, $1100 (down from $1600)

This Urchin Pouf is an expensive contemporary design object I truly adore, especially after seeing the yarn and the needles in person on Governors Island this summer. Hence my shock at seeing an extremely cheap version in the new CB2 catalog, which is rife with subtle and not-so-subtle revisions of Danish modern, Bertoia, Noguchi, Risom. Others have noticed its resemblance to the original with joy. I think the older generation can’t protest, but maybe Meindertsma should. Since CB2 was already the respite for impecunious DWR lovers, I should not have been surprised that other ideas might trickle down.