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<p>[QUOTE="reader, post: 822574, member: 255"]I could shoot myself-none. I was a stupid hippie kid, newly married to a grad student and bored to death. The marriage only lasted a few years longer than the business. The only pieces I have are from personal occasional stringing much later and nothing like the Bendel’s ones which were made of the most gorgeous antique elements from Shashi and other 70s NY importers.</p><p><br /></p><p>I can’t believe I never kept any of the cloisonné pieces. Tricia’s is one of the smaller ones but Shashi had antique huge ones also. I made one for Bendel’s in all black that had a huge center one and smaller ones all around separated by small round garnet and larger jade beads. That’s the one I should have kept. </p><p><br /></p><p>Shashi started making new ones in China when he could no longer get the old ones but it wasn’t the same. The old large ones were spectacular.</p><p><br /></p><p>I met Shashi when I was a buyer for a museum shop right out of college. I started stringing for them and continued on my own. I blew it. His other clients included not just Laurel but also M & J Savitt, and he once told me that he loved what I did with his pieces the most and the others went on to create empires but I considered myself far too much the artist to be so commercial. What a joke.</p><p><br /></p><p>When I think about what I threw away, but I had absolutely no business drive.</p><p><br /></p><p>I’m a poster child for always making the wrong choices but I’m still here and hanging in.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="reader, post: 822574, member: 255"]I could shoot myself-none. I was a stupid hippie kid, newly married to a grad student and bored to death. The marriage only lasted a few years longer than the business. The only pieces I have are from personal occasional stringing much later and nothing like the Bendel’s ones which were made of the most gorgeous antique elements from Shashi and other 70s NY importers. I can’t believe I never kept any of the cloisonné pieces. Tricia’s is one of the smaller ones but Shashi had antique huge ones also. I made one for Bendel’s in all black that had a huge center one and smaller ones all around separated by small round garnet and larger jade beads. That’s the one I should have kept. Shashi started making new ones in China when he could no longer get the old ones but it wasn’t the same. The old large ones were spectacular. I met Shashi when I was a buyer for a museum shop right out of college. I started stringing for them and continued on my own. I blew it. His other clients included not just Laurel but also M & J Savitt, and he once told me that he loved what I did with his pieces the most and the others went on to create empires but I considered myself far too much the artist to be so commercial. What a joke. When I think about what I threw away, but I had absolutely no business drive. I’m a poster child for always making the wrong choices but I’m still here and hanging in.[/QUOTE]
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