They said it...
By Staff -- Gifts & Decorative Accessories, 5/1/2007
"How the artistry of the modern familiar objects we see about us will rank alongside that from other ages remains for future generations to judge. One might easily doubt that some of our primary-colored plastic housewares will ever occupy space in a museum showcase, but the 18th Century housewife bustling about with her pastry moulds, tin soup ladles, and pitchers probably never suspected that those mundane utensils would one day earn public respect as objects of artistic worth." —Georgette Cartigny, The Gift and Art Buyer, January 1957
"Customers aren't human. Ask anyone who runs a gift shop. A customer is a woman who reads a fashion magazine and runs in that afternoon to ask if you don't have that gilt chamber pot with the rhinestones that would be so cute for a potted cactus in the guest room. She saw it in the issue that just came out in the morning." —Vera J. Beck, The Gift and Art Buyer, August 1957
"Some people say that the tastes of the American public are atrociously bad. Proponents of the bad taste view say it's definitely so, and for proof they point to the various horrors among some items of merchandise that the public shells out hard cash for, time and time again." —Editorial, February 1962
