Topic: More glass bricks/pavement lights/ashtrays?

[Margi]

Thanks for that but isn't that exactly what I said - you empty your pockets and place it in the item that is "the hollow holder" but then again I shan't be padantic about matters.

[malwodyn]

And in real terms "cendrier" means ashtray and "vide poche" means empty pocket or empty bag or another way of looking at it hollow pocket, something that items could be placed in which could be anything.  So in other words all 3 items on this thread are nothingness just empty wotnots

A 'vide poche' refers to its purpose, not shape. It is an item into which you 'vider' (= empty) your pockets. Something you might find  on a bedside table for holding loose change.

Does anyone know where I can buy one of these things?  I've just had another long search for my house and car keys!!  Now if I had something to put them in when I take them out of my pocket in the evening, I might find them easily in the morning...

[Margi]

Buy my one - infact why not buy all of them 

[Margi]

Jeanneret, Corbusier  both designed ashtrays/cendriers a few on ebay at mo can they all be wrongly attributed?
Corbusier = Lumax
 Jeanneret could be the designer on the one which is the thickest.  Still don't know on the green thingy.

[ian.macky]

Jeanneret, Corbusier  both designed ashtrays/cendriers a few on ebay at mo can they all be wrongly attributed?

Can they all be wrongly attributed?  YES!  It's definitely possible, though I am not saying it's necessarily so in this case.

I collect prism tiles (Luxfer etc), and pretty much every single one for sale is claimed by the seller  to have been designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, which is just not true.  This is called "salesmanship".  Sellers try to claim, or at least mention, that whoever is most famous in that area of design had something to do with it (Tiffany, Corbusier, Wright, etc), if only just to attract more attention and searches.

Caveat emptor!