They hired professional writers to create stories for a collection of $1.50-a-piece 1.50-a-piece 1.50-a-pieceld on eBay, where "the newly significant objunks sobjects as much as 2,700% of thatr value".
The answer, it turns out, was an emphatic "yes," as the newly significant objects sold for as much as 2,700 percent of their value on eBay, in a round of sales conducted from 2009 to 2010.
Sworn has a gift for significant objects that radiate their own strange magic (past works have involved old glassware, clothes and record players).
There are also significant objects categorized according to function; for example, animal gear represented by the woven harness of donkeys in Spain, carved and painted ox yokes and sheep collars, brass-studded and tasseled headpieces, and ornaments supposedly endowed with protective powers.
Premium pricing As the Significant Objects Project shows, people are willing to pay more for something surrounded by the aura of an emotionally involving story.
It turned out that for all of them, decorating the home with significant objects was important in home-making.
Meanwhile, the Significant Objects project continues.
Romanticism: an unrealistic idealization of emotionally significant objects.
This is a play that revolves around significant objects.
The show, which is uncharacteristic for the Met, reflects plenty of material success but is short on genuinely significant objects or artworks.
