I read in a widely distributed magazine (Bravacasa, I stole it, with no intention of returning it, from my wife, who at this moment is bewildered, she does not understand where she could have put it, she, usually so precise... The good thing is that, while she usually puts all the blame in the world on me, this time, perhaps because she has never seen me touch a women's magazine in her life, she takes me for innocent)... What were we saying? Ah, yes, I read in this magazine the advertisement of a modern and well-known fireplace manufacturer, an advertisement in which one of their particular models of "fireplace in ‘Louis XV style’ (in Paris, that ‘designer’ would have guillotined him without trial, and I won't add more or they will sue me...), a model in his homeland known by the name of “Coquille” (i.e. with a single shell on the front, not to be confused with the more popular “Trois Coquilles” which has three shells...) spat out by a Chinese numerically controlled machine in Rosa marble from Portugal costs euros 6,963.60...
What can I say, after being baffled by the required 60 cents, I did some thinking:
Maybe then these gentlemen will give a discount from the published price list, but how much?
So I picked up the phone and, pretending to be a possible buyer, contacted some dealer (TRE) of the same item of the same brand..
“I'd like to buy that fireplace seen on Bravacasa, but..I have maximum 4,000.00 euros, can you get there?”
Well, you won't believe me, but the least expensive one came to 5,400.00 euros, with transport fees paid by me....
I have the paper here, I keep it jealously and I am willing to show it to anyone.
To anyone, then, with the presentation of Louis Quinze Coquille here (nice name, eh. Said in the French language, then, it sounds even finer..), I will show that we sell the “same” fireplace at a much lower figure, despite the fact that ours was HAND-POLISHED 150 YEARS AGO, AND HAND-POLISHED, OTHER THAN NUMERICAL CONTROL MACHINES AND MANDORLA EYES!!!
PARISIAN PROVENANCE, SOLID ITALIC AND LUNENSE SCULPTURE, NICE PRESERVATION AND BEAUTIFUL PATINA.
TO GIVE YOU AN IDEA OF ITS PERIOD OF BIRTH, IN THE WORKSHOP WHERE OUR “COQUILLE” MANTEL CAME TO LIGHT, THE MASTER SCULPTOR AND HIS ASSISTANTS WERE DISCUSSING THE ABOLITION OF THE TAX ON THE MILLSTONE, THE POSSIBILITY OF FREE EDUCATION (AT LEAST UP TO THE POINT OF BEING ABLE TO WRITE AND DO ARITHMETIC) AND ABOVE ALL THEY WERE DISCUSSING A PROBLEM THAT HAS NOT YET BEEN SOLVED: ITALY HAD JUST BEEN MADE, IT WAS NECESSARY AT THAT MOMENT TO MAKE ITALIANS!!!
