Here's the list: Smith and Noble Windoware
Sur la Table
The Source Perrier Collection
The Pyramid Collection
Of these 4 catalogs, two of them are companies I have ordered from. I requested window treatment samples from Smith and Noble about 2 years ago, and last year, I ordered a bunch of pie birds from Sur la Table.
What about the other two? Source Perrier looks a lot like a company like Pottery Barn or Crate and Barrel, and I get the Pottery Barn catalog, so somehow making it onto the Source Perrier list isn't a huge surprise.
The Pyramid Collection catalog was by far the funniest thing I got in the mail today. Here's a link to their website--it looks like a company that sells new age jewelry, along with a pretty cool collection of dresses and cloaks that are straight out of a fantasy novel or fairy tale. I'm pretty sure that I got onto this list because last Christmas, I ordered my dad a Lord of the Rings letter opener from The Noble Collection--you know, that company that sells Harry Potter wands, LOTR jewelry, and swords from Pirates of the Caribbean.
I flipped through the Pyramid Collection catalog, and it was awesome. Not that I really want anything from the catalog, but it's hilarious to see what they sell.
Perhaps most impressive was the number of full-length cloaks with hoods that are available. The reversible purple/green velvet one to the right is just one example; black and red are also available.
The catalog is also clearly marketed toward women, or at least, people who are buying gifts for women. One of the things that made me laugh a lot were the numerous
corset/thong sets, like the one picture on the left. Apparently the desire to be a sexy wood nymph is more common than one would have thought. Then again, maybe that's not such a surprising fantasy, after all.Two other things that looked pretty cool: the wench dress and the nymph dress. I'm not really sure where I would wear either, except to a Halloween party, but they both look like they would be a lot of fun to wear. What's perhaps most humorous is that the catalog doesn't pretend that these can be worn in real life. Anything that claims to be "irresistible to elves" clearly isn't meant to be worn to work. The question then remains, where do you wear these things?
There was one thing in the catalog that I would like, and would actually wear in real life. It's a lace, long-sleeved turtleneck top, colored in pewter and silver:
Of course, since it's $80, I probably won't get it any time soon, but it's still a cool top. And it's a fun catalog to get, especially on a day with no actual personal mail. :)
