Ultimatum to Save Current Lobby Phal

[JMNYC]

Addendum;

I am a delver/researcher by nature (was raised by my school teacher mom to be too), it is also the foundation of both things I do professionally....

....so I used used Google Image
Search (my default search engine does not have this) and uploaded on of my pics of this puppy.....and came up with....nuthin.

I hope he don't let it get near death before he passes it on! Am sure the cache pot he wants back is some kinda rare porcelain and maybe signed. I never use cache pots.

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Originally Posted by orchidsarefun

he probably doesn't get to own them, it sounds like a rent-an-orchid scheme.....a previous company I worked at had something similar in place. It ensured that there were blooming orchids all year round without the hassle of cultivation.

Again, no way. Not in Jimmy's DNA, and Jimmy is sharp as the heel on a Louboutin strappy sandal. He does what I said early on: has some slightly more affordable than retail deal with the guy up the street to supply these ongoing.

And the majority of my neighbors.....talk about high maintenance and cache riddled (read: shallow).....all take it for granted as de rigeur.

[orchidsarefun]

JMNYC - after reading through this again I am reminded of that great movie The Grand Budapest Hotel. For some reason the shenanigans apparently going on wouldn't go amiss in that script ! And I mean that in the nicest way

[JMNYC]

Originally Posted by JMNYC

Addendum;

I am a delver/researcher by nature (was raised by my school teacher mom to be too), it is also the foundation of both things I do professionally....

....so I used used Google Image
Search (my default search engine does not have this) and uploaded on of my pics of this puppy.....and came up with....nuthin.

I hope he don't let it get near death before he passes it on! Am sure the cache pot he wants back is some kinda rare porcelain and maybe signed. I never use cache pots.

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Again, no way. Not in Jimmy's DNA, and Jimmy is sharp as the heel on a Louboutin strappy sandal. He does what I said early on: has some slightly more affordable than retail deal with the guy up the street to supply these ongoing.

And the majority of my neighbors.....talk about high maintenance and cache riddled (read: shallow).....all take it for granted as de rigeur.

Originally Posted by orchidsarefun

JMNYC - after reading through this again I am reminded of that great movie The Grand Budapest Hotel. For some reason the shenanigans apparently going on wouldn't go amiss in that script ! And I mean that in the nicest way

I am afraid to share this, and know I am uber movie fan---have over 500 in my DVD library, but truth is, I just can't connect to that director, and just could not get thru that movie despite I couldn't wait to see it, forget the good reviews it generated! He just don move me viscerally. We are ech unique, remember.

But I DO get and CHERISH your comments!

Edit:See, I try to just ignore the lobby phals, simply cause I knew the deal, know Jimmy and never thought I might get any of them or should even think about that. But this one made me snap. Plus, if I did get all of them, I would have even less room to grow than I do now!

[Miss_Cat]

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[JMNYC]

Originally Posted by Miss_Cat

I'm a bit at loss with this thread. JMNYC, what can we help you with?

I am, frankly, taken aback that you are at a loss....not every thread is engineered to elicit specific advice, after all. I was interested in receiving comments/responses to this unexpected chronology of interesting events centering on one individual phal.

Pls say if any confusion remains!

[jcec1]

Nice phal. I can understand why you covet it. Does the display get changed often? It seems such a shame if these plants get thrown away afterwards.

[JMNYC]

Trivialize? Really? I thought you were joking and I found it hilarious. Orchid Growing Goddess...I still...even hours later...find it entertaining.

K....give our little, atypical history, Katrina, that was not my take, nor is it still. I get compliments that mainly go in one ear and out the other. I have Virgo rising; I cut my own hair, do all 11 of my own nails (kidding I have 10), design and build my own cabinetry, build my own computers.....etc. but mainly, I am shoe savvy: anything that don fit, I don put on.

Ohhh sorry to hear this as I saw an exact duplicate of this at a local big box store. Hope he didn't pay too much as I'm sure another could be easily obtained for less than $40. Maybe even less than $30.

Forgive me, but yet again, you are missing data in this last 'helpful' offering: both about the reality of this individual plant (I think its two, actually), the quality of what this local guy offers, forget the presentation, and where I live people pay for the latter as much as the former....not the stuff of big box stores. Forget, this is MANHATTAN....and, an upscale part of Manhattan.

If only you knew what we paid the only guy in the world (took me forever to find him, thank God I knew a curator at Christie's) capable of making a custom mold to replace one of our original, 18" ceiling fixture shades in the lobby (circa 1931) when some mover guy broke it.....you would never believe it.

Peace! And be happy, Katrina! No reason for otherwise here.

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Originally Posted by jcec1

Nice phal. I can understand why you covet it. Does the display get changed often? It seems such a shame if these plants get thrown away afterwards.

Indeed, they are all nice, Jimmy has uber taste. when the current one starts to look bad, meaning when a lot of its blooms fade, a new one just appears.

And boy, you nailed it: it is a huge shame, esp what it is emblematic of in those who do it! But, no different from my neighbors who buy more modest phals and also treat them as fi they are cut flowers. Again, every single one of my around 35 phals is from the trash of this building.

I can't save all of them, but just trying is so nourishing for me.

Face it, the huge, worldwide commercial phal industry is geared to this treat em like cheaper than cut flowers, but more cache...consumer base mindset!

Same deal with electronics: I see just from the trash and empty cartons, everyone has to have the most cutting edge tablets, smartphones and 60" LED "smart' TVs, etc.

And they all seem to shop at Barney's.

[quiltergal]

Well bless your little red soled feet! 😉 It's a very pretty Phal, and Jimmy was very wise to consign it to your care.

[Optimist]

Its an awesome orchid, but I have seen similar for less than 30$ elsewhere, JM. I've seen these puppies at Lowes. Maybe not the exact cultivar, but similar enough to be twins. I wouldn't argue with some hoity toity overpriced seller in downtown manhatten. He's got his rep and his overhead to consider. A hybrid phal for 100$ when you can get them for $39.95? That is Silly as far as I am concerned.


And if you ever need custom molds made, get in touch with me. I make molds. (I guessed about Manhatten. Were from Brookline)

[JMNYC]

Originally Posted by quiltergal

Well bless your little red soled feet! 😉 It's a very pretty Phal, and Jimmy was very wise to consign it to your care.

That.....was adorable! But Terri, know that I have no respect for any female so lacking an actual identity she can be held hostage by any footware only the vapid would give $2,500 for! I know what all that merda costs to make!

But I will say, I would rather eat worms than ever be some victim of COMMERCE re red soles.....my little toe nails are always some shade of red and always perfect and I do them myself! I would made a pic but that would be TOTALLY insane, forget also creepy.

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Originally Posted by Optimist

Its an awesome orchid, but I have seen similar for less than 30$ elsewhere, JM. I've seen these puppies at Lowes. Maybe not the exact cultivar, but similar enough to be twins. I wouldn't argue with some hoity toity overpriced seller in downtown manhatten. He's got his rep and his overhead to consider. A hybrid phal for 100$ when you can get them for $39.95? That is Silly as far as I am concerned.


And if you ever need custom molds made, get in touch with me. I make molds. (I guessed about Manhatten. Were from Brookline)

Not the same thing, Ms. Talented Thing. Most of ours have two identical plants in the pot, many spikes, are gargantuan....and pls get, business is about costs and labor: a high end presentation in an expensive, big clay pot with the requisite bells and whistles indigenous to this level/imagery, i.e. sheet moss covering the ties, etc. every part labor intensive.....are the way they are in response to a certain demographic. Plus, this is an upscale part of Manhattan. The guy up the street sells these for what he does all day long and nobody breaks a sweat. If you knew what commercial space in my neighborhood costs per square foot....well gotta get all the data and see it all in perspective.

Most of my neighbors, MANY OF WHOM work on Wall Street---I offered some info so that people here might get some sense---EXPECT this pretentious level in all things. Do I? Come on....of course not! But here, I am an ABSOLUTE exception.

Re the mold, no, this required an older, hugely gifted and SINGULAR guy who is famously skilled with GLASS.
Beyond the perfect custom mold, he also had to spin and blow and hand engrave with old world master chops. He works MAINLY for the top museums in the world.

And HE kept the mold! We got three replacement shades, two are now in storage....just in case. It was a fortune, Jimmy didn't care. Remember, he (and the other members of the owning family, same family since 1931) could have easily chosen to save all those many thousands by just replacing all those vintage bronze lobby ceiling fixtures with something new...reproductions. But that's not how he rolls. And given the reality of this splendid building....it deserved no less.