WTB Good Art HLYWD Gold Pieces

[Giles]

Absurdly expensive in your view. But you obviously appreciate the design and aesthetic so you would not be looking for the stuff. I could design a piece of gold jewellery and try and sell it for 2x the cost, but no one would buy it because it would look shite and have no soul.

The global price of cotton is currently US Cents 80 per pound. So our jeans are like 200x.

Trying to equate the value of something with the raw material cost is not a particularly sophisticated way of going about things.

[Kasi]

Have you try the Facebook good art EDLC group seen many time gold things pop up.

[phillyforager]

@Kasi yep I’ve been watching that group for a while. Haven’t seen too many gold items pop up aside from a Shazam pendant here or there unfortunately

[phillyforager]

@Giles

Could not disagree more with you. Material quality, intrinsic value, and time input are a large part of my personal equation when determining the value of something.

Regarding the cotton reference: There is significantly more time and design that goes into transforming the cotton you are referencing into a wearable piece of clothing. You can mass produce jewelry that essentially gets poured into a wax mold and then polished after being assembled far more efficiently than you can taking raw cotton and turning it into a pair of denim jeans.

Their gold pieces are unobtainable for nearly everyone in society.

[Giles]

Disagreement is good. I have been taken around the foundry a couple of times by Josh. My abiding impression both times was how does he sell this stuff for so little.

[seawolf]

@Giles It's a pretty amazing tour, eh? I got the nickel tour a couple of years ago, and the fact that everything is handmade under one roof at that level is pretty mind-blowing.

[Kasi]

That something I need to do, visits the foundry..

[Matt]

@Giles said in WTB Good Art HLYWD Gold Pieces:

Disagreement is good.

I disagree.

[seawolf]

I think there's confusion between what's expensive and what's costly. It costs a lot to make things right. Whereas things that are expensive have inflated prices that aren't commensurate with the design, materials, and workmanship.

[Giles]

I think there is confusion between price and value.....

[seawolf]

@Giles said in WTB Good Art HLYWD Gold Pieces:

I think there is confusion between price and value.....

I think that's a more concise version of what I was saying. Price can be arbitrary. Value is intrinsic.