By contemporary standards it was pretty fancy: photos of the best items, glossy paper, decent typesetting.
During Tuesday's auction, which dragged on more than five hours, gentlemen in dark suits and ladies in stylish heels sipped coffee and nibbled hors d'oeurves while poring over inch-thick glossy catalogs of the items up for bid.
Although WizBang Solutions offers some marketing services, it's best known locally for its printing shop, which produces glossy mailers, signs and other items.
For every nonfiction classic like George Plimpton's "Paper Lion" or Michael MacCambridge's "America's Game," the shelves are cluttered with dozens of adoring biographies, glossy chapbooks and quickie novelty items like "100 Things Steelers Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die".
As the company hires more curators, some of them will turn their attention away from zapping porn and instead "plow through the Internet to find the coolest shit online" — not the aspirational, expensive stuff featured in glossy magazines like GQ, but items in the $20 to $40 range.
At the same time, a new crop of members-only sites that look just like flash sales (they send daily e-mail blasts and dangle items for a limited time in glossy virtual storefronts) has emerged.
He envisioned the print volumes living on as a niche, luxury item, with high-quality paper and glossy photographs — similar to the way some audiophiles still swear by vinyl LPs and turntables.
This is the woman who famously told Radio 4's Desert Island Discs that a lifetime subscription to the glossy fashion magazine would be her one luxury item if she were a castaway.
But there's a problem: the writer's magazine, a People competitor (or "BSG," for Big Soft Glossy), has to find a way to shape the item to fit the subtle boundaries of its market niche.
Rosalind left behind many of her father's books (some annotated), as well as items like the die-cut puzzles he made of glossy magazine covers by Maxfield Parrish and others.
