What's that? For a while now I've meant to congratulate you on your interior design choices but these latest two headphone supports really take the cake. Damn, where do you find this stuff? Particularly the dog racer is outrageous as a stand for what looks to be a Susvara or HE-1000? Way cool, Srajan. I take it these were one-off finds? I'd love to find something like this for myself. Any tips? Rory
My luckiest destination for weird/wonderful finds have been the TK MaXX discount shops in Castlebar and Galway. They buy huge lots of closed-out merch, discontinued stuff, stuff that's new but didn't sell in its original stores years ago. Now it's become a last-ditch effort to move. While our regional outlets emphasize clothing, they also do a bit of furniture, kitchen ware, bedding, picture frames, lamps, decorative items… and rare oddities like the sculptures I repurposed for headphones. In fact, a lot of the cool 'designer' bits in our current house are from there, often at real throwaway prices. If you have one of these shops in your 'hood—in the US they were called TJ MaXX—give it a try. You may have to visit regularly until one day you luck out. They have a big turnover so the inventory changes weekly if not quicker. Most the time there's no maker's label to learn who made it and where to look for more. So I have no idea who originally made and sold these particular busts. Of course right now such stores are considered unessential businesses so closed until the strict lock-down eases up. Srajan
